I dual-booted Mint on my 2011 MBA the other week and it was a nasty experience. I feel like Linux users have low standards, or maybe I&#x27;ve been away too long. Here&#x27;s four things I found immediately:<p>1. The fans don&#x27;t automatically react to temperature without a background daemon (?!).<p>2. Multi-touch trackpad support is terrible. The default synaptic driver can&#x27;t handle you resting your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad. The alternative driver doesn&#x27;t support momentum scrolling (and is still a bit shit). At least palm detection has been solved; well done Linux, it only took you 10 years.<p>3. It cannot seem to handle using left Alt as a third-level activator (e.g. for # key on EU keyboards) at the same time as actually letting you &#x2F;use&#x2F; your Alt key (e.g. for activating menus). I think I eventually solved this, but how hard should it be?!<p>4. As others have mentioned; battery life.<p>I was impressed that sleep, audio, wifi and display brightness all worked out of the box though. Progress, eh?