On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Isaac Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > I am wondering if anyone has some tips about running Ubuntu by default on a > mac. I have heard that it can be quite tricky, and I wonder if that is true > or not. > > Would the best approach be to install Ubuntu as the base OS and then OSX in > a partition? Would that even work with OSX's install process? > > Thanks a lot, > Isaac
My experience with any Linux distribution running on Apple hardware is to be aware of the model you are attempting to use. Both the newer Macbook Air's and iMac's use custom GPU's, which the nouveau drivers will _not_ play nice with. Other than that, best practice dictates that you follow through with the Apple supported BootCamp method for setting up your partitions, and then rather than installing Windows, install Ubuntu instead. This works, although there is some manual fixing after the install, IIRC GRUB won't be configured properly because Apple's EFI does wonky things. Hope this helps! -FF- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
