According to him, two-finger scrolling works immediately and has a battery life that lasts about an hour. Dylan Herx runs Windows as his primary operating system on his Mac and Ubuntu as his secondary operating system. As a result, you can run Ubuntu with no additional space on your computer by converting the entire 1GB of data. By clicking on the partition previously created, you can modify it. If you want to turn off your OS X installation, you must first open the advanced options on the drive selection screen. Live USB will provide three options: Install Ubuntu, give it a test drive, or grant it access to your computer. In response to the popularity of OS X Lion, Apple has allowed third parties to natively boot multiple operating systems using the EFI portion of the logic board. Using Terminal is the simplest way to convert a disc image into a bootable USB.

If you’re running a Core i5, Mac Pro, or Mac Mini, you’ll need to upgrade to the 64-bit version to maximize your hardware. In order to perform this tutorial, you must first modify the partitions on your hard drive and install third-party software. Although it was done on a 2012 MacBook Air, this method should also work on other models.

You’ll need to install a Linux Live CD or USB and do some extra work to get Ubuntu running on your Mac. We’ll also show you some of the benefits of using Linux on your Mac. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Linux on your Mac and how to boot directly into Linux. While Macs come pre-installed with macOS, you can also install Windows or Linux on your Mac and boot directly into those operating systems. One of the advantages of using a Mac is the ability to easily dual boot into different operating systems.

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