[nikkisnow]

At home, I'm running a MacBook Air 13" (2011) but with Fedora 18 installed directory on it (no VM or Bootcamp). Love the hardware of Mac but not particularly fond of their OS. Absolutely love it.

At work, I've got a Dell Latitude something-or-other running Fedora 18 as well.

Linux is yummy goodness.

[rosser]

How are you finding running Linux on that machine? I use the 4,2 Air as well, but I've seen reports of incompatibilities, as well as reduced battery life, when running Linux.

[nikkisnow]

It's pretty good. I did have some issues installing Fedora the first few times. I'm not sure if it's something I did but the very first time I installed Fedora, I thought I bricked the MBA. Couldn't get anywhere past the Disk Utility. But, I reformatted the drive twice, let it sit for an hour, and then attempted the install again. The second time is when I couldn't get the wireless working so I tried one more time and it went successfully. I actually installed Fedora 17 because that was the latest at the time. However, everything is running very smoothly now. Fedora is wicked fast on the SSD. As for battery life, it's very comparable to the native OS; I've gone just over 4 hours before needing to worry; I think the longest I've gone is around 5 hours. The weird thing is that I have double battery indicators in the tray when unplugged from the power cord. I've got it hooked up to an external monitor and that works; closing the lid puts the laptop to sleep. I've also encrypted my hard drive and the only issue I noticed there is that if you don't type in your password relatively soon after boot, the OS will fail to load so you have to force the shut down and restart. Feel free to email me any specific questions if you want.