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anyone tried it native on a macbook pro retina yet?

and/or : best laptop for running it? I'm guessing a thinkpad or maybe one of the dell xps13 developer edition?

Runs great on a Lenovo ThinkPad T430s and X220T.

However I had to send back a T440s, and I guess it is the same with all the new Thinkpad models :( The "virtual" trackpoint buttons work so bad (while clicking the cursor slides) and when you disable the trackpad alltogether then you have no mouse-buttons at all! But I guess this is not Ubuntu's fault - it's Lenovo who screwed it up.

Ugh. My 440s arrives today :/

I'm running it on the latest XPS dev edition, and it works great. I even use the touch screen occasionally.

The fonts were kinda small on 13.10, but in 14.04 there's a new setting to "scale for menu and title bars" which I bumped up a little, and it looks great now.

avoid dell. even if that ONE model was any good, which it is not, their entire line sucks for linux support.

get an asus. it was the first company to try shipping linux for real (not dev beta scams) and still pick the most linux friendly components (last time i checked)

I bought a Dell e7240 couple of weeks ago and put Linux Mint 16 on it (since Mint is based on Ubuntu, I wouldn't expect the experience to be vastly different for straight-up Ubuntu). Everything except the hardware Wifi on/off switch works out of the box (the Wifi can be comfortably turned on/off via the Cinnamon network applet). Considering that this is new hardware (Haswell i7, 8GB DDR3 RAM and dual 256 GB SSD), I absolutely wouldn't have any issues recommending Dell for Linux to anyone.

Finally, the above system can also be ordered with 12.04 LTS which means Dell is officially supporting Linux. I don't think it can get much better than that.

Counterpoint: I've run Ubuntu 11.04, 12.04, and now 13.04 as my everyday OS very well and very consistently on two consecutive Dell laptops (the older XPS 13 and a Vostro v131) and both have worked incredibly well.

Dell has some support for the corporate E models but not that solid (eg touchpad support took ages to arrive).

Asus is also the company that ran an advertisement campaign titled "It's better with Windows".

No, thanks.

after they offered eeepc with linux snce 2006 and nobody bought :)

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