get linux driver (zip file, download beforehand and put on USB).install broadcom ethernet driver (wired):.sudo gparted -> create ext4 partition (disk04) + 2 GB swap partition (disk05).press SHIFT when setup entering graphics mode, then:.download 'ubuntu 12.03 amd-64+mac' iso and burn it on cd (using OSX diskutil).It was a terrible experience in fact but by now it runs just fine. Second time, not needed because I used Ubuntu 16 LTS.ĭon't have my macbook model/brand handy but I could give that to you.Īll in all the second time things went 10 times easier than the first time.Īt the bottom I pasted the notes ("installation instructions") I put together the first time (actually I did the whole process 2 times, talking about "get a life", haha), to illustrate how complicated it was. first time I had to install the "LTS hardware enablement stack" (/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack) to get proper hardware support (I also had the problem that CPU temperature/fan control wasn't working).(I think first time I used Ubuntu 12, second time Ubuntu 16) Second time (Macbook) all of that was not a problem, PROBABLY because I used a much newer Ubuntu version.
First time lots of fussing with reFIND, grub, "bios" installation and so on and so on (trial and error).įirst time I had some trouble with video as well (not sure how I fixed that but it was a lot of hassle) and the network (Airport) didn't work out of the box, I had to manually download/compile a driver. I did it two times, first on my Mac Mini, second time on my Macbook.įirst time I used reFIND (boot manager), second time skipped that, just using the Mac book manager (pressing Alt while booting) works fine, the extra hassle of reFIND isn't worth it (first time I messaged around a lot also with creating the partitions). It has for me, multiple times, and thus I can't recommend it for non-experts. Consider yourself fortunate it hasn't happened to you yet. It's inevitable - it's the cost of living with the state of the art. When you run at the bleeding edge of everything, something will break. I agree that the old versions of some of the software available in the 'static' distros is annoying, but it's easily overcome by installing from source, using vendor repos or the cutting edge releases available in repos such as Debian's backports. After that I decided no more gratuitous kernel upgrades, and switched to something more stable. The last time it was Xorg that got borked because the proprietary nvidia driver couldn't compile cleanly with the new kernel headers. It's not a criticism of Arch per se - any rolling distro (Gentoo, etc.) is risky. Arch, however, would inevitably fail some months down the road after a world update. Upgrading from 14 to 16 was very smooth for me the few times I tried it.
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