



For the base Arch installation you can following the Arch Wiki Installation.Once you boot from it, delete HFS partition you've created in the previous stepĪnd create two partitions: "/" and "swap" (You can create other if you wish, I Restart your Mac with the USB disk inserted and you'll see it in the rEFInd boot
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Install Arch Linuxĭownload the Arch Linux ISO and put it on USB disk (I used Rufus). Which will allow to boot from Linux partition and from USB disks. Once rEFInd is installed you'll have a new boot menu whenever you start your Mac Made the main 20GB smaller to make space for the Linux partition).Īfterwards, download and install the rEFInd boot manager (I had to boot I'm dual-booting Arch Linux and OS X from the internal SSD.įirst, from OS X, resize your main partition and create a secondary partition (I Have enough time to plug it in, I need to setup proper warnings). Low battery warnings (Once I reached 2% the machine just shut off, I didn't.Instructions in the Arch Linux wiki, I haven't tried them yet). Proper lock-on-lid-close (I'm currently using xscreensaver to lock the screenīut it doesn't seem to be fully synced with the lid-close event, there are.It's not perfect, but I think overall it's better the OS X experience. I've been using it for about a week and it's amazing, much better than IĮxpected. Workstation at work (from a Mac Pro) and started using i3 again whichĮmphasized to me how terrible window management is on OS X. Window Management - Ever since I moved to Mac I've been missing the i3.
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