Installing Fedora on a 2012 MacBook Pro
Installing Fedora on a 2012 MacBook Pro
Hi everyone,
My girlfriend has a 2012 MacBook Pro and she can’t macOS updates anymore because it’s Applecrap.
So I’ll dualboot Fedora and MacOS. We’ll keep macOS just for a few exceptions like iPhone backup.
I already have a Fedora installation on my Surface Go 1 and I took a lot of time setting it up perfectly. Is there any way to « clone » that installation on the MacBook so that I don’t have to go through everything again?
Well just to give an update, I’ve now installed Fedora on that MacBook Pro and it was pretty easy. The only thing which didn’t work out of the box was the wifi. I had to install ROM fusion and then it downloaded some drivers.
Otherwise everything ran smoothly except for the installation of the windows 10 virtual machine in gnome boxes. I had installed the flatpak one, but that one doesn’t allow you to use the usb ports, so I had to reinstall the machine on the Rpm version.
So that old beast can now have a long life again!
Fedora runs great on Macs, but I think of is better if you do a clean install because of the Mac bootloader, and then copy all of the configs.
You can do a script to install all the software you need.
What do you mean by clean install? Wiping MacOS and then reinstalling it alongside Fedora? I won't really be able to do that since my girlfriend wouldn't want to lose her not backed up data.
By clean install I mean plugging the USB, install only fedora, replacing macos and then coping your configs and data.
Of course, back up before you do anything.
You can also try Fedora KDE and theme it to a MacOS aesthetic so she feels at home.
I recommend you to try the live USB before installing. Probably WiFi wont works so you either look at drivers in the repository, or get an USB WiFi dongle.