#Can you install linux on a mac how to#
#Can you install linux on a mac mac os x#
#Can you install linux on a mac mac os#

Mark: '25 imacs in our office, and most cannot be upgraded to 10.10 as it is too slow. Run a full benchmark suite such as phoronix under OS X, then load a Linux say Ubuntu on you Mac and run the full benchmark suite under Linux and compare the numbers and be amazed as some OS functions run twice as fast or more under Linux on the same hardware.' Phoronix: 'OS X is pretty but slow as a dog on the same hardware but if you only run OS X you'll never know it - ignorance is bliss. Besides: I build an entire setup (kernel + busybox + apps/utilities/etc) on my MPB 15' using 8G, 2 cores, and running from USB3 external HDD and it builds in half the time our virtual network servers w/Xeon cores.' Easier to fire up VB with FC21 and got to town. I'd rather run a new version of Linux on the hardware than to be unable to get security updates from Apple.'Д®mbedded: 'There are enough 'quirks' in OS X to make doing cross dev not pretty. I would not hesitate to replace OS X with Linux once my older MacBook Pro goes unsupported by Apple. Jeremy: 'Your hypothesis is somewhat flawed by the fact that you don't specify whether you are talking about NEW Mac hardware, or hardware which is no longer supported by current versions of OS X.

#Can you install linux on a mac how to#

Linux is even getting better at video editing.'Д«ogdan: 'As you said, curiosity is the reason, but you forgot to mention one alternative: virtualization! I use free software -Virtualbox in order to learn how to use Linux. In the future though, when my MacBook hardware dies, it looks like I may be buying a Pureism Librem 13. The MacBook is my 'Take anywhere' machine because it's durable and can run both the operating systems I need and battery life is amazing. I also have a top spec gaming laptop running Linux (never thought I'd ever say gaming and Linux in the same sentence!). Steve: 'I can't speak for anyone else, but I've installed Linux on my MacBook (dual boot) purely because I liked the hardware.

I guess it all depends what do you want to do.' I have my Macs dual booted with Xubuntu, and I hardly go back to Mac.

Mac is a very good OS, but I personally like Linux better. Skunxoi: 'I've been using Mac computers for the last 10 years now. Softpedia readers had their own thoughts to share about the virtues of combining Linux with Mac hardware: Some of you out there might call it a Hackintosh, but I like to call it a Linuxtosh.

#Can you install linux on a mac mac os#

I myself have a regular computer where I am dual booting Arch Linux and Mac OS X. If you really need to have a Linux OS alongside OS X and you know what you're doing, install it, otherwise get a different, cheaper computer for all your Linux needs.

#Can you install linux on a mac mac os x#

Mac OS X is a great operating system, so if you bought a Mac, stay with it. So, we're back from where we started, if you're not a skilled hacker or computer enthusiast who knows how to optimize a Linux kernel and other core components for specific Mac hardware, you should not bother installing a Linux distro in the first place.

Many of you will want to install Linux on a Mac out of curiosity, but the sad truth is that you'll end up asking all over the Internet how to remove it, because, in many cases, it won't recognize some of the hardware components of your Mac computer.