It is important to note that other people who may wish to try Linux with their new 12 inch Retina MacBooks might have a slightly different experience than me, as my MacBook was custom ordered to have the upgraded 1.3 GHz processor and 500 GB SSD, which is larger than the default SSD, so would be a different chip than a default build of this MacBook that is not custom ordered would have. However, I was, unfortunately, not able to get much further than that, because once it was time to partition the disk, I found that openSUSE only recognized the SanDisk USB thumb drive that I was using as my installation media, and did not recognize the built-in Apple SSD at all.Īccording to the system information in Mac OS X Yosemite, the SSD appears to be a NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSD. This seemed to work perfectly fine, and allowed me to proceed with my install. I attempted to temporarily get around these issues during the install process by using an Apple USB-C to USB-A adapter with an ordinary powered USB hub plugged into it, and plugging my openSUSE Tumbleweed USB installation flash drive, an Apple USB keyboard, a Logitech USB optical mouse, and an Apple USB Ethernet adapter into the USB hub. In attempting to do so, I had a very similar experience to what I had read about with Arch Linux, which is that openSUSE was able to boot into the installation program, and everything seemed to work fine, except for the built-in keyboard, trackpad, and Broadcom 802.11ac wireless adapter. Therefore, I attempted to install the newest build of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with the 4.0 Linux kernel. Other information that I came across seemed to suggest that using the newest kernel version possible might provide for a better likelihood of the Broadcom 802.11ac adapter being supported. That report noted that with the live edition of Arch Linux, the MacBook was able to boot from USB into Linux, but that the built-in keyboard, trackpad, and Broadcom 802.11ac adapter did not function. After quite extensive searching, the only reference to anyone else trying Linux on the new MacBook was someone trying Arch Linux. There seem to be surprisingly few Google search results describing anyone attempting to install any distribution of Linux on the new 12 inch Retina MacBook. For anyone who is interested, I tested openSUSE on Apple's new 2015 12 inch Retina MacBook today.
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