About an hour every morning of my first week with this laptop was spent. I did a dual boot, but if you indeed plan on completely replacing OSX, this post has instructions for rebuilding an EFI boot partition: EFI boot Ubuntu 14. I recently came into ownership of a late-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display. Since Mac uses EFI boot, the machine I was working with detected my Ubuntu 15.10 drive without issue using the stock bootloader (though I had to add 'nomodeset' to the Grub boot command or Ubuntu would hang.) Simply make free space on your disk using Mac's a boot disk utility (or not if OSX won't even boot,) make an Ubuntu live USB and plug it in, hold the Option key while it boots, and select your drive. Warning: Backup your stuff or use a fresh iMac or MacBook. Just launch it and enter your password twice and go about your business.

It should install without any rebooting etc. No need for any USB drives or figuring out the proper network/video drivers to get your system to get up. I don't know how much has changed between 20, but I recently installed Ubuntu on a 2008 MacBook Pro and it was amazingly simple. Arch Linux running on my MacBook What to do to kick start it and teach it super powers MacBookPro11,x - ArchWiki The MacBook Pro 11,x consists of models with Retina display. I relied on three other Arch-on-MacBook guides to help me through the process: The MacBook and MacBookPro11,x Arch Linux wiki pages. Here are a few top choices of Linux distros for Arch lovers who want to make the most out of this flexible operating system From customization to installing. This will setup Arch Linux on your Mac or MacBook all from Mac OSX.

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