[thejosh]

Yeah, go and buy a thunderbold ethernet cable, they are really cheap and work fantastically.

The only downside is on Linux you have to reboot if you unplug the ethernet, but apparently that's being improved in 3.15.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

I think the reason Windows and Linux seem to behave awkwardly with Thunderbolt is that Thunderbolt is actually PCI-Express, and they're not exactly used to hot-plugging PCIe devices! But that's just speculation on my part.

[wolfhumble]

What happens if you don't reboot?

[thejosh]

It doesn't work :).

[wolfhumble]

I see :-)

RHEL 7 will be a problem then, I assume, as it seems to be based on 3.10?

[thejosh]

I run the 2013 on Arch, and apart from the thunderbolt issue it actually works very very well. Totally silent laptop with incredible battery life is a major winner.

[abrowne]

Or get a (third-party) USB 3 adapter.