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Recently Apple introduced a ‘security feature’ called ‘SIP’ (System Integrity Protection) which you will additionally have to overcome if you are using El Capitan or newer. I used MacOS Mojave, which is the latest version of macOS at the time of writing.

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You should have plenty of free space on your disk drive (the more the better), so either delete some cruft or move some of your old data onto a separate external archive hard drive (because I know you got one or ten of them lying around!).

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I am writing this assuming that you want to keep Mac OS X on your hard drive and that you wish to dual-boot it at any time. Dual Booting with Mac OS (yes, you can keep MacOS!)

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This won’t let you install Linux on your mac, let alone boot from a USB stick. The Startup Security Utility defaults enforce the highest security by default. Ensure that this is set to ‘Allow booting from external media’.

There should also be an option about ‘External Boot’.

Switch it off by selecting ‘No security’.

Now look at the options, there should be an option for ‘Secure Boot’.

When you’re asked to authenticate, click Enter macOS Password, then choose an administrator account and enter its password.

When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar.

Turn on your Mac (or restart it if it’s already on), then press and hold Command (⌘)-R immediately after you see the Apple logo.

You’ll need to start your mac into the Recovery mode and launch the Startup Security Utility. Note that I haven’t tested this (I don’t have a new mac), so please let me know in the comments if it works for you. If you have said T2 chip, then you’ll need to disable the secure boot option in order to install Linux on your mac.

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See the image to the right to show you how to find out if your machine has the T2 chip. This basically means that you can’t use anything other than macOS on Apple hardware, however it is possible to switch off secure boot. Unfortunately, from 2018, Apple decided to add a new ‘secure boot’ T2 chip into their mac hardware. If you see “Apple T2 chip” on the right, your Mac has the Apple T2 Security Chip. In the sidebar, select either Controller or iBridge, depending on the version of macOS in use. press and hold the Option key while choosing Apple () menu > System Information. This should include Macbook Pros, Macbook Air, iMac and probably Mac Pro’s… Update: Apple’s new P2 ‘Secure boot’ chip The EFI based Macintosh started around 2008 (you can check the list of the Apple EFI systems here).

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This tutorial has been tested on a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15″, however it should work with any EFI based Mac (more on that in a bit). The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide cannot be held responsible for any damage caused as a result of following this tutorial. If you do proceed, make sure you have backed everything up with TimeMachine or such like tools. Here’s the definitive guide to installing Linux on a Mac.ĭISCLAIMER: This is an advanced tutorial which sometimes works at the command line and can cause irreparable damage to your data. I long since realised that I could do exactly what I wanted to do with my macbook using Linux, rather than being encumbered by having to follow the ‘Apple’ way of doing things. The hardware is solid, fast, and beautiful, but over time, macOS has become dumbed down and in some places, downright silly.

Got one of those shiny Mac laptops, but Linux has you realising computer freedom is best?

Screen backlight, Keyboard Backlight and Volume control hotkeys.

Problems booting Linux? Fix it by installing the EFI boot manager and disabling SIP protection.

Accessing your Macintosh files from Linux.

Step 4: Finishing up and fixing a few problems.

Step 2: Partitioning your Macintosh hard drive.

Using Etcher to ‘burn’ your ISO image to a USB stick.

Step 1: Downloading and ‘burning’ your Linux distro image of choice to a USB stick.

Dual Booting with Mac OS (yes, you can keep MacOS!).

Got one of those shiny Mac laptops, but Linux has you realising computer freedom is best?.

How I got my job in Linux: from Newbie to Pro.

How to install Ubuntu 18.10 on a Macbook Pro.

How to install Linux on a Macintosh and dual boot with macOS.

Moving to Linux? Bring your Google Drive with you.

How to use Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and more in Linux.

Howto: What is Git and Github? How do I use it and why should I care?.

Analysing system performance with ‘Top’.

Files, Directories and the Linux Filing System.

Chapter 3: Choosing a Linux Distribution.

Chapter 2: Why Linux – What’s the Benefits?.