This video was amazing. Thank you. You were so clear and there were zero unnecessary details. I didn’t realize that dual booting would be so easy. I was dreading the attempt to install arch on my 2015 mbp but it turns out that I might not need to be scared.
This tutorial is really clear and to the point. I dual booted my Macbookpro-15 by following each step. Thanks for the wonderful work! For people who wonder why people want Archlinux on mac, it is a fantastic way of learning to start with. Also archlinux is lightweight and blazing fast, not to mention the flexibility and countless dev-tools for developers.
Thanks a lot. Your tutorials are the best. Simple, clear, not too fast and not to slow. Since first time using Arch i always watch your tutorials to set up my system. Thank you!
I know this might be very late, but I gotta say this video helped me out finally managing to use Linux on my Macbook! Thank you a lot! Finally able to discover the world of linux a bit deeper!
Thanks for the installation guide. I used it to install Arch Linux on an old, first gen MacBookAir on which I had previously installed other Linux distros. Arch Linux is by far the fastest and most responsive OS for this old Mac! Nice and minimalistic. I very much appreciated the pace and simple, no frills approach of the video, also very clear.
Hello and thank you for the great video. I have been using Arch for 3 months now and I was sick of virtualbox and the performance. Now finally I have installed Arch on my MacBook Pro 2014 and now it is super fast and makes fun to work with it. Many thanks to you! Danke :)
This is a great tutorial - one of the better Arch tutorials around. I'm obviously doing something wrong because after 5 or 6 attempts I just can't get it working on my MBP Mid 2015 (11,4). If i use the latest kernel - Arch hangs on first boot. If I use the lts kernel the boot entry is never created and I can still only boot MacOS. I have followed both your guide and the 11,x guide on Arch Wiki, and I'm pulling my hair out. I abandoned Ubuntu/Mint on my MBP as it was running too hot (idle 50-60C) even with mbpfan running. I'm going to have to save up for a System 76 machine so that I can run linux on compatible hardware I guess. Macbook just seems to be a real pain when it comes to running any linux distro.
Hi Richard, some people are reporting the lts kernel working better , especially with a 15”. Moreover, tray not to install the intel video driver. Sometimes that causes the problem too.
@@eflinux I just can't figure out why - when using the lts kernel, and complete the install - there is no option to boot Arch in EFI - only MacOS - I've tried editing the arch.conf PATH (using the PARTUUID of my root directory) I've tried reinstalling the bootloader, I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but the option to boot Arch just isn't in the EFI partition post install. If I use the latest kernel during install it seems to work - but of course as soon as I reboot after install, Arch hangs and never boots. I'm ready to say this has beat me.
@@eflinux I think you are probably on to something. I cannot successfully boot the live usb unless I set the nomodeset kernel option. Either that is causing issues with the install, or it is an indicator that indeed there is a conflict with the intel video driver. At this point I think I'd be more willing to make another attempt if I was able to determine that someone else with an 11,4 MBP had success using the latest kernel & skipping the intel video driver.
15:48 you have made a mistake and forgot to remove the "-" as well. The correct entry should have been "default arch*" since you have the "arch.conf" and not the "arch-.conf" in your entries directory. If the entry is misspelled, the efi boot manager won't recognise it and thus won't make it as default boot option.
Hello Ermanno, Although this tutorial is already three years old, it is new to me because I have followed it now to install archlinux on my 2015 MacBook Pro. Congratulations! I love your way of teaching and your good taste. I followed all the steps, taking into account the updates, but there seems to be a problem because only macos starts. Do you know if there is any type of security that prevents it from reading the boot file? Thank you for this excellent video!
Interesting change in the style of the video! I love it. Although I don't have a mac, I thought dual booting using mac os' bootcamp would be easier! Turns out I was wrong. And it makes sense because bootcamp doesn't load the vmlinuz system image or initramfs. Excellent video!
Hi Ermano, love your video. How about MacBook air 2015? Do you actually can use wifi from the start from live usb? Some other video tutorial, you can only use Ethernet since wifi doesn't work at the beginning.
That you'll not be able to. As I mentioned in the video description, newer Macs might not work due to the security chips. There is a link to a wiki in the video description.
Hi thanks for the great tutorial! I'm wondering if I accidentally turned off my computer halfway, (I was at the step of 10:40 in your video) do I have to start all over again? Thanks!
Good tutorial. Now in 2023 little out of date, and some things could be made different, like the adding the own picture to the bootmenu and get the plymouth bootloader animation working, and the SDDM login manager as well (only show a mouse cursor). And same time it is little too early as it is for 2014+ Macbooks, where the earlier ones (I am writing this on 2009 and 2011) come with a Broadcome Wi-Fi chip that is not supported out of the box (requires B43 driver, that is in AUR) so installation can't be performed without either RJ45 cable, or then using a Android smartphone tethering (out of the box support). As well I would have left out the personal opinion of themes for Plasma desktop. Other some things I would consider different is to add a own /home partition. As that is always saving the day as it makes very easy to make a disk backups from it, and then you can switch distribution if wanted without touching home files at all, as it is not so good idea at all to have /home in the same partition as / is or anything else. Same could be said about the swap file to be smarter be a own partition than a file, as then you can even have multiple distributions and share same swap partition, and you can more easily manipulate the partition if required.
I followed this on my MacBookPro11,3, it looks like everything installed just fine, yet at boot there is no Arch Linux option, only macOS as reverse text, and a countdown from 10 to 0, this crashes, I reboot with OPT pressed and I am able to choose the Macintosh volume itself. Rebooting again with SD card reinserted mounting the device and typing bootctl with no arguments looks like a good option with MacOS twice and then the linux option from this guide. However it does not boot. I will try to zap the PRAM. Zapping the PRAM did not do it; making sure arch.conf used tabs as key value separator in place of spaces did make a difference, and now this works.
why still mac is running even though you have over written the sda1 EFI partition of macOS ? I'm confused here, please help me to understand. doesn't apple macOS need EFI partition data ?
@@eflinux Thankyou, one last question, I have 2019 MacBook pro with Apple T2 security chip. Im very afraid of doing dual boot Arch linux along side MacOS. Can I follow the steps from this video ?
The most likely thing is that you do not watch, or respond to the comments added to this video, due to the years since its publication. In any case, I want to include this observation for those who come here to follow this archlinux installation tutorial alongside macOS. First I will say that it is an excellent installation guide, and that it works perfectly on a 2015 MacBook Pro. But after some time the 200MG of space on the EFI partition becomes too small and finally during file updates an error occurs due to lack of space on that partition. I don't know how this error can be corrected, taking into account that the EFI partition cannot be increased because there is no free space after it. If the reader of this comment knows how to do it and would like to include the answer, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you
Hi, thanks for your comment. I do always read them 😃 Try to use sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq). This might free up unused kernels and its files, if you have multiple kernels installed.
@@eflinux Thanks for your answer. I am not an advanced user, and I do not have multiple kernels installed. I have run the command you suggest to remove unnecessary files. Now I have to wait for a full update because I made one a few days ago. By the way, what do you think of an application for macOS that allows you to delete temporary files from the EFI partition? The application is called Clover configurator. Thanks again 😊
Dear teacher, It seems to me that this command no longer works. systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service Failed to start org.cups.cupsd.service: Unit org.cups.cupsd.service not found. Could you confirm it in your laboratory?
Dear teacher, Could you tell me why this function no longer appears in the new versions on archlinux. In dolphin, network had a very useful function which was to add network folder (ftp, sftp, webdav) It just doesn't show up anymore, could you confirm?
@@eflinux Yes in KDE Plasma Would you like to add this function? It seems that now it got confused! we have two folders network and network service. When it enters the network service folder, it configures that it is missing (The ZeroConf server (mdnsd) is not running.) Wait!
Hey! I am getting an error when I enter the installation. When I input "arch-chroot /mnt" I get an error saying that "chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory". Is there any way I can fix this?
Hi Ermanno, thanks for this tutorial. I'm stuck here: 9:59, what should i do after /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0? This is my first installation... :(
Hi! As you can see in the video description: since the release of the kernel 5.7 creating a Swapfile with fallocate will not work at reboot. Create one with the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512 status=progress" (for a 512M swapfile for example) and everything will work fine again. Cheers!
Dear teacher, archlinux was the only system that I adapted because I was a user of Hands. I'm starting now and I have this difficulty when relaunching an upgrade in the terminal presents this warning -> AUR packages marked as out of date: snapd Could you explain me step by step
At 17:37, at "systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd", the output I received was: "Failed to enable unit. unit org.cups.cupsd.service does not exist." Why is this?
I updated this yesterday in the community. Yesterday there was an update to the cups package. The systemd name changed. You can enable with sudo systemctl enable cups.
Hi ermano, trying to install on a MBP 2015 13' :) everything went ok but after I reached the final unmount -a and removing the usb stick, reset and press alt, both options there load up macOS :( I followed your guide with you step by step... what could be wrong?
You can browse the arch wiki for more info, but the touchpad should be the same in terms of support; but for gestures those need to be implemented on your own(im not sure if there are gesture packages out there). For the gpu, there are a few options. U can either deal with nvidia display drivers(yuck) or use the intel integrated graphics then use the nvidia prime offloading for rendering applications.
Please say us: Why did'nt you install GRUB2? Can you show, how the boot process works? I habe a Mocbook Pro 2015 too, but only 250GB SSD. Is it a good idea to use an optional drive like SD-Card or USB-Stick for the Arch system?
Hi Mirol, in my opinion Grub is too complex to install on a Mac although possible. Systemd boot is much easier as it supports the Mac efi structure out of the box. Therefore it’s easier to install and eventually to remove. 256G is fine, maybe try giving Arch 80G depending how big your Mac partition is. Ermanno
Hi, Ermanno. I have a macbook pro from 2015 and I followed your installation carefully but when I restart after the creation of the user I get stuck on the verbose.
@@eflinuxThank you very much for your quick answer. My macbook pro is 15inch but my model has just an integrated intel graphics card. After creating the user (useradd), exit from the arch-chroot and reboot. When I reboot I stay blocked on the verbose (reached target)
I wonder if the intel driver is making issues. Try to remove it. To do that you might have to boot from the live iso, mount your existing root and boot partitions, arch-chroot /mnt, and remove with pacman -R xf86-video-intel.
@@eflinux It looks like this is due to a problem with kernel 5.7, indeed here and there I read that it can cause acpi problems. I redid the installation with linux-lts-kernel and no problem.
I don't know if this is happening to the others, but on the wifi network when about 10 minutes the computer freezes and I have to restart it. This does not happen in the wired network. systemctl status NetworkManager warning: no upstream servers configured I don't know if it has anything to do. I look forward and thanks for the return
I don’t want to partition my disk, is it possible to manually switch disks anytime depending on which OS I’d like to boot? That way I could have both macOS and Arch but on separated disks and boot the one I want on the moment. I trust on dual boot but my SSD is very very limited on storage.
EF - Tech Made Simple I guess I can try following the tutorial but on a blank disk (skipping part the partition with Disk Utility) and see how it goes. I just don’t want to mess with the Apple one and being unable to boot it again. Maybe a tutorial for those who want Arch and only Arch on their Macs would help. Big Ermannno I’m your fan keep going I (we) appreciate your work!
@@eflinux that's what I did! It was super simple! Can you please link me to some sources on how to nuke/100% remove KDE from the system? I would like to try other options:) Thank you for the tutorial, you are a great teacher!
Thank you for video. I have 13" Macbook pro 2010(mid), 4gb ram, nvidia geforce 320m cards. I'm novice . I saw many video tutorial of ubuntu installation . do it possible bualboot with Ubuntu 20.04 and Macos . If you please make one video that's make me very grateful.
@@eflinux Arch Linux is to much complicated for me. Do I install Manjaro for my mac ? Do Manjaro Linux support graphics and touchpad ? Please note , I never use any linux distro before .
The point is to have dual booting macOS and Linux for those who wants to use Linux on the Mac. Some users might need it for some tasks and want to have Arch a second system.
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This video was amazing. Thank you. You were so clear and there were zero unnecessary details. I didn’t realize that dual booting would be so easy. I was dreading the attempt to install arch on my 2015 mbp but it turns out that I might not need to be scared.
Thanks for the feedback!
This tutorial is really clear and to the point. I dual booted my Macbookpro-15 by following each step. Thanks for the wonderful work! For people who wonder why people want Archlinux on mac, it is a fantastic way of learning to start with. Also archlinux is lightweight and blazing fast, not to mention the flexibility and countless dev-tools for developers.
Glad it helped!
Thanks a lot. Your tutorials are the best. Simple, clear, not too fast and not to slow. Since first time using Arch i always watch your tutorials to set up my system. Thank you!
I know this might be very late, but I gotta say this video helped me out finally managing to use Linux on my Macbook! Thank you a lot! Finally able to discover the world of linux a bit deeper!
Thanks for the installation guide. I used it to install Arch Linux on an old, first gen MacBookAir on which I had previously installed other Linux distros. Arch Linux is by far the fastest and most responsive OS for this old Mac! Nice and minimalistic. I very much appreciated the pace and simple, no frills approach of the video, also very clear.
I’ve been up for 6 hours learning how to do it and thank god I found your video thanks man for realz
Hello and thank you for the great video. I have been using Arch for 3 months now and I was sick of virtualbox and the performance. Now finally I have installed Arch on my MacBook Pro 2014 and now it is super fast and makes fun to work with it. Many thanks to you! Danke :)
Hello and great video mate. I have a macbook pro 15" 2015 With Nvidia GeForce GT750 M. Will this be an issue while installing?
This is a great tutorial - one of the better Arch tutorials around. I'm obviously doing something wrong because after 5 or 6 attempts I just can't get it working on my MBP Mid 2015 (11,4). If i use the latest kernel - Arch hangs on first boot. If I use the lts kernel the boot entry is never created and I can still only boot MacOS. I have followed both your guide and the 11,x guide on Arch Wiki, and I'm pulling my hair out. I abandoned Ubuntu/Mint on my MBP as it was running too hot (idle 50-60C) even with mbpfan running. I'm going to have to save up for a System 76 machine so that I can run linux on compatible hardware I guess. Macbook just seems to be a real pain when it comes to running any linux distro.
Hi Richard, some people are reporting the lts kernel working better , especially with a 15”. Moreover, tray not to install the intel video driver. Sometimes that causes the problem too.
@@eflinux I just can't figure out why - when using the lts kernel, and complete the install - there is no option to boot Arch in EFI - only MacOS - I've tried editing the arch.conf PATH (using the PARTUUID of my root directory) I've tried reinstalling the bootloader, I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but the option to boot Arch just isn't in the EFI partition post install. If I use the latest kernel during install it seems to work - but of course as soon as I reboot after install, Arch hangs and never boots. I'm ready to say this has beat me.
Have you tried the latest kernel without the intel driver?
@@eflinux I think you are probably on to something. I cannot successfully boot the live usb unless I set the nomodeset kernel option. Either that is causing issues with the install, or it is an indicator that indeed there is a conflict with the intel video driver. At this point I think I'd be more willing to make another attempt if I was able to determine that someone else with an 11,4 MBP had success using the latest kernel & skipping the intel video driver.
15:48 you have made a mistake and forgot to remove the "-" as well. The correct entry should have been "default arch*" since you have the "arch.conf" and not the "arch-.conf" in your entries directory. If the entry is misspelled, the efi boot manager won't recognise it and thus won't make it as default boot option.
Hello Ermanno,
Although this tutorial is already three years old, it is new to me because I have followed it now to install archlinux on my 2015 MacBook Pro.
Congratulations! I love your way of teaching and your good taste.
I followed all the steps, taking into account the updates, but there seems to be a problem because only macos starts.
Do you know if there is any type of security that prevents it from reading the boot file?
Thank you for this excellent video!
same problem here on my 2017 imac where only macos shows up in systemd-boot
Interesting change in the style of the video! I love it. Although I don't have a mac, I thought dual booting using mac os' bootcamp would be easier! Turns out I was wrong. And it makes sense because bootcamp doesn't load the vmlinuz system image or initramfs. Excellent video!
Hi! Bootcamp can be used to dual boot Windows, but it won’t work with Linux. Glad you liked the video :)
@@eflinux really?
It contains the Windows drivers only, and it’s mostly used for that.
@@eflinux thanks! I didn't know that.
How good is the battery life on arch linux compared to your mac?
Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this video!
Until now not that different. I'll see more the coming week since I am taking it with me on a trip.
@@eflinux A review of your experiences, the pros and cons you find would be great! I hope you're able to make it shall you find the time.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll see what I can do :)
Hi Ermano, love your video.
How about MacBook air 2015?
Do you actually can use wifi from the start from live usb? Some other video tutorial, you can only use Ethernet since wifi doesn't work at the beginning.
Hi! On this model it worked out of the box, with the little adjustment I showed at the beginning.
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Was a very good tutorial. However didn’t work on my newer Mac with t2 chip , would you make a specific one for newer Macs?
That you'll not be able to. As I mentioned in the video description, newer Macs might not work due to the security chips. There is a link to a wiki in the video description.
Real the best tutorial, thanks for the work.
I have the same model Mac and also want to install KDE! So lucky this was my first result!
Resolved. I have uninstalled broadcom-wl 6.30.223.271-317 and installed broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-28. It works now.
Hi thanks for the great tutorial! I'm wondering if I accidentally turned off my computer halfway, (I was at the step of 10:40 in your video) do I have to start all over again? Thanks!
Good tutorial. Now in 2023 little out of date, and some things could be made different, like the adding the own picture to the bootmenu and get the plymouth bootloader animation working, and the SDDM login manager as well (only show a mouse cursor). And same time it is little too early as it is for 2014+ Macbooks, where the earlier ones (I am writing this on 2009 and 2011) come with a Broadcome Wi-Fi chip that is not supported out of the box (requires B43 driver, that is in AUR) so installation can't be performed without either RJ45 cable, or then using a Android smartphone tethering (out of the box support).
As well I would have left out the personal opinion of themes for Plasma desktop.
Other some things I would consider different is to add a own /home partition. As that is always saving the day as it makes very easy to make a disk backups from it, and then you can switch distribution if wanted without touching home files at all, as it is not so good idea at all to have /home in the same partition as / is or anything else. Same could be said about the swap file to be smarter be a own partition than a file, as then you can even have multiple distributions and share same swap partition, and you can more easily manipulate the partition if required.
I'm having an issue where when I run ip a or ip addr show or anything I only get lo as a network device, no ether or wlan.... whats the problem here?
I followed this on my MacBookPro11,3, it looks like everything installed just fine, yet at boot there is no Arch Linux option, only macOS as reverse text, and a countdown from 10 to 0, this crashes, I reboot with OPT pressed and I am able to choose the Macintosh volume itself. Rebooting again with SD card reinserted mounting the device and typing bootctl with no arguments looks like a good option with MacOS twice and then the linux option from this guide. However it does not boot. I will try to zap the PRAM. Zapping the PRAM did not do it; making sure arch.conf used tabs as key value separator in place of spaces did make a difference, and now this works.
You are the best man
why still mac is running even though you have over written the sda1 EFI partition of macOS ? I'm confused here, please help me to understand. doesn't apple macOS need EFI partition data ?
GRUB installs on the EFI partition but doesn't overwrite anything. It detects macOS and displays the OS's to boot.
@@eflinux Thankyou, one last question, I have 2019 MacBook pro with Apple T2 security chip. Im very afraid of doing dual boot Arch linux along side MacOS.
Can I follow the steps from this video ?
That will not work. For Macs with security chips there is at the moment no way to install Linux.
The most likely thing is that you do not watch, or respond to the comments added to this video, due to the years since its publication.
In any case, I want to include this observation for those who come here to follow this archlinux installation tutorial alongside macOS.
First I will say that it is an excellent installation guide, and that it works perfectly on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
But after some time the 200MG of space on the EFI partition becomes too small and finally during file updates an error occurs due to lack of space on that partition.
I don't know how this error can be corrected, taking into account that the EFI partition cannot be increased because there is no free space after it.
If the reader of this comment knows how to do it and would like to include the answer, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you
Hi, thanks for your comment. I do always read them 😃 Try to use sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq). This might free up unused kernels and its files, if you have multiple kernels installed.
@@eflinux Thanks for your answer.
I am not an advanced user, and I do not have multiple kernels installed.
I have run the command you suggest to remove unnecessary files. Now I have to wait for a full update because I made one a few days ago.
By the way, what do you think of an application for macOS that allows you to delete temporary files from the EFI partition? The application is called Clover configurator.
Thanks again 😊
Dear teacher,
It seems to me that this command no longer works.
systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service
Failed to start org.cups.cupsd.service: Unit org.cups.cupsd.service not found.
Could you confirm it in your laboratory?
Yes, I posted in the community a few weeks ago about this change. There was a change upstream and it has been renamed to cups :)
@@eflinux Thanks!
Dear teacher,
Could you tell me why this function no longer appears in the new versions on archlinux.
In dolphin, network had a very useful function which was to add network folder (ftp, sftp, webdav)
It just doesn't show up anymore, could you confirm?
On KDE? I will have to check it out.
@@eflinux Yes in KDE Plasma
Would you like to add this function?
It seems that now it got confused! we have two folders network and network service.
When it enters the network service folder, it configures that it is missing (The ZeroConf server (mdnsd) is not running.)
Wait!
Have a look here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/avahi#Installation
Hey Ermanno. Could you make some videos about customizing Vim ? Including themes, powerline, tmux and possibly other things ?
Hi René, yes definitely, I’ll add it to the list!
Hey! I am getting an error when I enter the installation. When I input "arch-chroot /mnt" I get an error saying that "chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory". Is there any way I can fix this?
why can't you just install GRUB on mac?? is the bootctl part obligatory for macs?? or just a alternative way to do that?
Because we can't get rid of the Mac bootloader as it is embedded in the firmware.
Hi Ermanno, thanks for this tutorial. I'm stuck here: 9:59, what should i do after /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0? This is my first installation... :(
Hi! As you can see in the video description: since the release of the kernel 5.7 creating a Swapfile with fallocate will not work at reboot. Create one with the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512 status=progress" (for a 512M swapfile for example) and everything will work fine again. Cheers!
@@eflinux Thank you so much! But, how do I return to the previous screen? no commands seem to work, esc, enter...i'm stuck!
First delete the line in the fstab file and save/exit with :x. Then run the command above.
@@eflinux You saved me man! Grazie mille!!!
No problem!
Hi, can arch be installed on MacBook air 2020 (intel). I could not find any articles regarding that.
In Macs with T Security chips it’s near to impossible.
@@eflinux Thank you sir, for quick response.
Dear teacher, archlinux was the only system that I adapted because I was a user of Hands.
I'm starting now and I have this difficulty
when relaunching an upgrade in the terminal presents this warning
-> AUR packages marked as out of date: snapd
Could you explain me step by step
There is nothing you can do there. Until the packages will be updated from the maintainer, the error will appear.
@@eflinux thankyu!
Hello, when i run 'ip link' the wlan doesnt show up and i saw you said to install broadcom-wl drivers, how do i do that?
Hi, do you think this works on MacBook Air's from 2019, I can't find it on the newer macs link.
I'm not sure about that, I've never tried it on that model.
At 17:37, at "systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd", the output I received was: "Failed to enable unit. unit org.cups.cupsd.service does not exist." Why is this?
I updated this yesterday in the community. Yesterday there was an update to the cups package. The systemd name changed. You can enable with sudo systemctl enable cups.
Hi ermano, trying to install on a MBP 2015 13' :)
everything went ok but after I reached the final unmount -a and removing the usb stick, reset and press alt, both options there load up macOS :(
I followed your guide with you step by step...
what could be wrong?
Which version of macOS do you have?
@@eflinux big sur
That might be the issue. I haven’t tested it yet with that but I suspect Big Sur is changing something also in the system firmware.
@@eflinux would it work with Catalina? I tried to install on mbp as a run before my iMac which has catalina
That’s the last one I tried.
Do Macbooks pro nvidia geforce 320m cards and touchpad, works same in ubuntu like Macos ?
You can browse the arch wiki for more info, but the touchpad should be the same in terms of support; but for gestures those need to be implemented on your own(im not sure if there are gesture packages out there). For the gpu, there are a few options. U can either deal with nvidia display drivers(yuck) or use the intel integrated graphics then use the nvidia prime offloading for rendering applications.
Excellent!!
Thanks Jake!
Can I do this on a 2012 MacBook pro? I already have two ssds in it.
Please say us: Why did'nt you install GRUB2? Can you show, how the boot process works?
I habe a Mocbook Pro 2015 too, but only 250GB SSD. Is it a good idea to use an optional drive like SD-Card or USB-Stick for the Arch system?
Hi Mirol, in my opinion Grub is too complex to install on a Mac although possible. Systemd boot is much easier as it supports the Mac efi structure out of the box. Therefore it’s easier to install and eventually to remove. 256G is fine, maybe try giving Arch 80G depending how big your Mac partition is. Ermanno
I totally agree, with @eflinux
Why would you install GRUB on a Mac, when there is already an EFI loader built in?
I ever do this, but the grub of macOS simply desapeared. I had to reinstall everything.
Hi, Ermanno.
I have a macbook pro from 2015 and I followed your installation carefully but when I restart after the creation of the user I get stuck on the verbose.
Hi Ismael! You mean after reboot? Do you have and amd card in there? If so, install xf86-video-amdgpu instead of intel. Ermanno
@@eflinuxThank you very much for your quick answer. My macbook pro is 15inch but my model has just an integrated intel graphics card. After creating the user (useradd), exit from the arch-chroot and reboot. When I reboot I stay blocked on the verbose (reached target)
I wonder if the intel driver is making issues. Try to remove it. To do that you might have to boot from the live iso, mount your existing root and boot partitions, arch-chroot /mnt, and remove with pacman -R xf86-video-intel.
EF - Tech Made Simple I will test it thank you very much
@@eflinux It looks like this is due to a problem with kernel 5.7, indeed here and there I read that it can cause acpi problems. I redid the installation with linux-lts-kernel and no problem.
I don't know if this is happening to the others, but on the wifi network when about 10 minutes the computer freezes and I have to restart it.
This does not happen in the wired network.
systemctl status NetworkManager
warning: no upstream servers configured
I don't know if it has anything to do.
I look forward and thanks for the return
I am assuming you're on a Mac?
@@eflinux Yes macbookair 2012
You probably have the wrong driver. You should install the broadcom-wl package and reboot.
@@eflinux It worked perfect now
Thanks!
Very good 👍
I don’t want to partition my disk, is it possible to manually switch disks anytime depending on which OS I’d like to boot? That way I could have both macOS and Arch but on separated disks and boot the one I want on the moment. I trust on dual boot but my SSD is very very limited on storage.
It should be, but I haven’t tried that scenario yet. Ermanno
EF - Tech Made Simple I guess I can try following the tutorial but on a blank disk (skipping part the partition with Disk Utility) and see how it goes. I just don’t want to mess with the Apple one and being unable to boot it again. Maybe a tutorial for those who want Arch and only Arch on their Macs would help. Big Ermannno I’m your fan keep going I (we) appreciate your work!
Will add it to the list! Thanks for your support!
MacBooks Pro 2018 works fine?
I doubt it, because of the T chip.
Another update I came across - enable cups with "systemctl enable cups.service"
Thanks. I forgot to put the update on this video. It is now in the video description.
@@eflinux Fantastic video btw - have just used to install on a Mac Pro (2013)
I have seemingly the exact same setup except I also set up encryption. I have to boot from rEFInd into Grub because only Grub can read encrypted ext4
I have a MacBook Pro 8 (2011). I have dual-booted with Archlinux and it worked fine. The only thing that doesn't work for me is the WiFi
For that to work you need to install the broadcom-wl driver.
I installed the broadcom-wl and it has recognized the wi-fi card. Thanks for everything. The tutorial is wonderful.
I installed it and I am having MacBook Air 2018 how can I install WiFi drivers ?
On Macs with T security chips it’s not going to work for now.
EF - Tech Made Simple mine is not T security chip 😓😓😓 i5 process
Which model you have exactly?
EF - Tech Made Simple MacBook Air 13inch 2018 model ( i5 processor and 8gb ram )
For that you need probably the proprietary broadcom driver, which you can install from the repos.
Wait, what do I install on the USB stick??? How do I boot it so that it goes straight to the Linux terminal??
You'll need to create a live ISO, boot the mac and press the alt key. Then you'll be given the choice to boot the stick.
wifi-menu command not found error. Please help
That’s outdated. You need to use the iwctl utility.
@@eflinux that's what I did! It was super simple! Can you please link me to some sources on how to nuke/100% remove KDE from the system? I would like to try other options:) Thank you for the tutorial, you are a great teacher!
Here we go
ruclips.net/video/2vbrFZiq2Hc/видео.html
Thank you for video. I have 13" Macbook pro 2010(mid), 4gb ram, nvidia geforce 320m cards. I'm novice . I saw many video tutorial of ubuntu installation . do it possible bualboot with Ubuntu 20.04 and Macos . If you please make one video that's make me very grateful.
Those MacBooks are a little more tricky because the graphics card is not anymore supported, but with the drivers from the AUR you might make it work.
@@eflinux Arch Linux is to much complicated for me. Do I install Manjaro for my mac ? Do Manjaro Linux support graphics and touchpad ? Please note , I never use any linux distro before .
I really can’t say as I haven’t tried that. I tried Ubuntu 20.04 on a 2010 Mac and had some issues with the graphics driver.
I use arch btw
its a bit pointless having a dual boot when just have arch and just emulate the apple-apps or better yet find the actual opensource versions on github
The point is to have dual booting macOS and Linux for those who wants to use Linux on the Mac. Some users might need it for some tasks and want to have Arch a second system.