[plug] Sacrilege - running Linux on MacBook

Linda Ray lindarayonline at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 18:28:31 AWST 2018


Hi Richard, not sure if it will help but this months linux magazine talks about doing a dual boot install on a MacBook Pro I think but Mac anyway.. it may help. That way you have best if both good worlds. 

Cheers Linda 

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> On 4 Jan 2018, at 4:34 pm, Richard Meyer <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I have succumbed to the Apple media machine and bought a second hand
> MBPro off Fleabay - it's a nice machine, fairly snappy and so on and the
> touchpad is great - keyboard not too bad either.
> 
> Anybody taken it to the next step and installed OFOS* on it yet?
> 
> I've used to magic of Google - mea culpa - should have used DDG, I know,
> and found quite a lot, lots written by almost technical people.
> 
> Also Youtube has a lot - some of it total gibberish and others, full of
> how to install as a VM.
> 
> I have booted from USB stick and messed around, but wasn't able to get a
> network connection (WiFi)   (Kubuntu 16.04)
> 
> If I were to bite the bullet and go ahead and install, what are my
> chances?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> *  OFOS - Our Favourite Operating System
> 
> -- 
> Richard Meyer
> 
> As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.
> 
> Linux Counter user #306629
> 
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