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What stops your MBP from running Linux?

Touchpad support is the big blocker for me. It does support some of the gestures, but the whole experience is sub-par compared to what we were spoiled with on Mac OS. Movement and acceleration is weird, the ignoring of "accidental" contact doesn't always work well, and some gestures take a few attempts to register.

If they could just nail this down, I'd never boot Mac OS again on my MBP.

Are you talking about the default synaptics driver or have you tried xf86-input-mtrack-git?

There's something in the wiki but I have no mac, so I don't know what I'm talking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook#Touchpad

I haven't tried that yet, but sounds like a good idea. I may have to give it a shot again.

The large number of pixels on the Retina display (well ... I have it attached to a Thunderbolt monitor too). Ubuntu 13.04 claims they'll support the MBP Retina, but I've already said I want to avoid Unity. I guess that means the drivers are available though. If I was choosing now, I'd probably go for the upgraded Lenovo X1 Carbon (or maybe the 230 ... my son's favorite).

But I also admitted it's usable, so I'll live with it for a couple years.

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