John Abreau wrote:
OP asks about wiping MacOSX off his Apple hardware and replacing it with Linux.
Will, the OP, never said anything about wiping or replacing anything.
You tell him "Linux desktops suck, install FreeBSD instead".
I did not. I copy-paste:
Reason two: Every Intel-based Macintosh ships with a FreeBSD-based operating system already installed on it. All that's missing is an X server and a Ports collection. The former can be had by installing XQuartz, and the latter by installing MacPorts. That will get you about 98% of what you'll find in a Linux distribution without having to deal with proprietary hardware drivers and desktop environments that make Windows 8 look swell. Unless you want to: MacPorts has Gnome 2 (maybe 3), KDE 3 and 4, and Xfce 4.6.
I cannot see how you got from "leave OS X on the system and install XQuartz and MacPorts" to "wipe OS X and install FreeBSD". Perhaps I am blind after all?
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