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by pxc 1290 days ago
> The last one I remember seeing is Linux in a MacBookPro hardware (I think MBP 2011) that started waking up immediately after sleeping due to some USB issues. Apparently the only known way to fix that was to "downgrade the Kernel" to some other version.

Macs have hugely nonstandard firmware implementations, from EFI to SPI to Thunderbolt. You should always treat running Linux on Apple hardware like building a Hackintosh. It's not remotely in the same category as support for normal PC hardware.