The harddisk utility in Yosemite is not the greatest, but this is fairly straight forward. Optional: create a MacOS Yosemite recovery medium ( follow these instructions) if you want to be on the safe side.iso file as such, I will explain why later) Backup your files (please also backup the downloaded Ubuntu.Download Ubuntu 14.10 amd64 (Desktop, 64 bit) here and create a bootable Ubuntu USB medium ( follow these instructions).So this tutorial will explain in fairly layman’s terms how to: install Ubuntu 14.10 alongside MacOS Yosemite on a 2013 MacBook Air 11″, instructions will likely apply to similar models. It’s just better optimized for this hardware, at least right now. You should know however that there are drawbacks when using Ubuntu rather than MacOS. At the same time, all new Macs run on fairly standard Intel hardware, so compatibility issues are also mostly out of the way (exceptions below). Note: MacBook support in Ubuntu has improved drastically, even from 13.x to 14.x Ubuntu. I am not an engineer or technical person, but I have I would say above average Ubuntu and computer skills, but still I found the landscape of tutorials out there to be a bit lacking, and I think short of official guidelines from Canonical or anything, I want to try to condense the existing tutorial steps, distilling from all of them what – from reading all of them – turns out to be best practice. There are plenty of tutorials out there about installing Ubuntu or other operating systems on a variety of older and newer MacBooks. What I don’t like at all, is MacOS (Yosemite is an improvement, but I still find it to be a highly inefficient and strangely restrictive system), so I decided to dual-boot with Ubuntu 14.10 for a while to see how that works out. Even though it has its downsides ( see previous blogpost), it mostly works reliably, has long battery life and is highly portable. I am mostly happy with the 11″ MacBook Air (2013 model) as my primary workhorse.
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