Comments on: 15 Best Linux Distros to Install on Your MacBook

By: kris

kris — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:35:52 +0000

I think you are doing it totally wrong. I have changed the distro so many times on my laptops, main still is on Arch Linux forever.

Download –> Balena-Etcher –> put in a usb drive and mark the .ISO file you want, and flash that stick-> put it so in the pc and boot from it? it has NEVER failed me once over the years.

And yeah Linux is slowly getting there, but the main reason it is not shooting along is not because of them, its because it won’t support linux, luckily now steam support pretty well, for gamers, gimp for images, lutris for .exe files, etc and so on.

By: You can't trust Google

You can't trust Google — Fri, 21 May 2021 08:32:19 +0000

I have tried Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, and Opensuse on a 2012 MacBook Pro i7 8GB, and not one of them will install. I have followed the instructions listed on each site to no avail. Created a USB stick, created a blank partition on the disk…. nada. Every one of the installs starts and then hangs. No wonder Linus is slow to expand in the marketplace.

By: steveH

steveH — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:26:26 +0000

In reply to Michał Woliński.

If you’ve accumulated (for whatever reasons) one or more space macs, why not bring Linux on? Older ones might not be supported well (or at all) on the most-recent macos releases, or you might just want to play with/use linux and don’t really need a “stronger notebook”.

By: Divine

Divine — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:02:12 +0000

In reply to M42.

Right; Deepin has kinda been an ironic case recently. I have noticed that the latest updates break the OS when it’s run from a virtual environment. Hopefully, this will get fixed soon because it sure is driving interested users away.

By: M42

M42 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:56:04 +0000

I’ve not been able to get Deepin to install on a Macbook Pro. The trackpad on Manjaro is jumpy. Also, Manjaro hangs up too much for my taste. Zorin behaves the best of any distro I’ve tried. BTW, Elementary looks like the Mac OS from 15 years ago. In other words, it’s not very Mac like, unless you like the dated look. Tried it and found it to be very limited in what it offered. Like so many Linux distros, the mouse/trackpad was jerky and imprecise. I really like MX linux. It runs great in a virtual box, but couldn’t get it to install on a Mac or run from a USB drive. The trackpad simply didn’t work at all on a Mac.

By: Trashbean Soup

Trashbean Soup — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:39:11 +0000

May I point out to Linux tragics that spinning off a lot of names is not explaining anything.

It seems a mystery, listening to Linux users, as to what they do besides run and install Linux.

Ask a Mac or Windows User what it is they do and it won’t be that they run Mac or Windows. They have jobs, and the computers help them do it.