Linux looking MacOS with Apple Mouse and Windows, is it possible?

[leandrodafontoura]

I was wondering if this particular built is possible to be accomplished, details below:

-Linux and Windows 7 dual booting on a OCZ 1TB Revodrive Pci-express
-When booting into Linux, the OS would recognize the Apple Magic Mouse (bluetooth), including its touch 360 degree scrolling and inertia.
-When booting into Windows, the OS would recognize a USB/PS2 wired microsoft mouse.


I also have a few Linux questions:

-Does it support Blu-ray?
-Does it supoort 2x SSDs in RAID 0?
-I read that Linux can simulate Dashboard, Expose and Spaces, features of Mac OS, how do I enable them?
-Can I configure the keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy/paste/save/select all? I am used to using "command" as Im in a mac keyboard, it would be the equivalent to "alt" on a ABNT keyboard

 

[bmouring]

I did some quick research on the PCIe SSD setup you have, and I think the main issue you're going to have there is that the RAID controller on that card is a so-called "fake RAID" controller (requires OS-installed drivers to interact with the card, such that the OS provides some of the RAID functionality in SW), and trying to dual-boot a fakeRAID array into both Windows and Linux is a recipe for headache (it can usually be accomplished, but takes some real effort)

An Apple Magic Mouse can certainly be recognized and used in more recent kernels, but you woul want to double-check with whatever distro+version you were thinking of (you may need to update the kernel separately to ensure that the mouse works as you'd expect)

Technically, Linux has no issue supporting the BluRay disc format and drives, the issue you're going to run into is software to play back encrypted, encumbered media. There are solutions out there (see this article, for example), but it takes a bit of setup

See my previous ranting about fake RAIDs

The tools to emulate these behaviors (and other similar "eyecandy") is a combination of the Window Manager (usually Compiz) as well as some other applications (for example, Cairo Dock), the main ways to configure/enable these are through the tools' respective configuration utilities.

You can configure/map whatever keys you'd like to whatever action you'd like, it's mostly an exercise in using some GUIs or editing some textfiles (depending on your selected WM or method to map keys)

 

[leandrodafontoura]

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