- #Installing ubuntu on a mac how to
- #Installing ubuntu on a mac install
- #Installing ubuntu on a mac drivers
#Installing ubuntu on a mac install
Before we install Ubuntu, we need to install rEFInd - a bootloader we can use for both Ubuntu and OS X, so we can switch between the two OSes. On OS X I used etcher to burn the image to a USB.Īlright.
#Installing ubuntu on a mac how to
I won’t go into any detail how to do this here, but there are plenty of tutorials and tools for this on the web. I used 18.04 LTS for driver availability and stability.Īfter the download is complete, create a bootable USB stick with the image. The next step is to download the ubuntu iso. You can either format this now to MS DOS (FAT), or during the Ubuntu installation later.
Once the container is resized, you have some unallocated space. You can do this on a live file-system and it took half a day to complete on my machine. Sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 750g jhfs+ Extra 250g I checked out this tutorial, however, I ran into an error (49153) because of my time machine backups.īasically, the steps are: sudo tmutil disable In order to do that, in a default Catalina or later setup, we first need to resize the APFS container. The goal was simple - make a non-apfs partition. This was already a bit annoying and not particularly beginner-friendly. All of this can go wrong and you might lose data, brick your machine or whatever, so backup everything you need first. Stepsĭisclaimer: We’re going to resize partitions, reformat things and install an operating system. If you’re wondering how the driver situation looks for your Macbook model, here is a nice overview of “The State of Linux on 2016 & 2017 models”. I investigated USB audio and wifi sticks and saw that they’re actually rather cheap and, especially for audio, there are no compatibility issues. However, then a colleague at work actually got Linux to run on his Macbook and didn’t have any severe issues. So the first time I investigated this, I jumped ship, judging it to be too much effort and likely too much frustration.
#Installing ubuntu on a mac drivers
The last time I tried a Linux distro as my main development OS was quite a while ago and back then it was exhausting to set up and maintain.įirst, I was put off, because for my model Audio doesn’t work (there are no working drivers for it). This situation led me to investigate if it’s possible to run Linux on a Macbook - mostly to try it out. Unfortunately, since I got my new 2016 Macbook (the one with the touchbar), the quality of both the hardware and software, especially in terms of robustness and stability has somewhat degraded. The hardware was fast and reliable and the operating system got out of the way and provided everything I needed. I switched over to using a Mac in 2013 and back then, the development experience, from my perspective, was great.
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