Le 25/09/2017 à 07:02, Keith Keller a écrit :
I put CentOS 7 onto a MBP. I'm not sure what vintage it is but probably similar to yours. IIRC the install was relatively straightforward, including wireless and X11, two factors that were a huge PITA for me in the past on Apple laptops.
With CentOS 7 I only had one problem, which proved to be a showstopper. Normally I'm running a highly customized version of KDE on all my CentOS desktop installations (installation is described in detail on my blog at https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-centos-7/). On the MacBook Pro, KDE simply froze at startup. The KDE splash screen would show the first hard disk icon, then there would be a little chime, and that's it, freeze.
I've already seen this behavior on other older laptops, and a peek in /var/log/Xorg.0.log showed me that the card couldn't render the desired effects (don't remember the exact error message). And this even though I had installed the proprietary NVidia driver.
The thing would probably have worked with Xfce or MATE, but I had a strict time limit for that installation. Ubuntu 16.04 worked pretty much out of the box - and is nice to look at - so I decided to go with that. Next time I'll give CentOS 7 + custom Xfce a spin.
Cheers,
Niki