I’m all about keeping it stupid simple, yet beautiful: Presumptions and requirements before installing Hence I found myself assembling one too with hopes to help my fellow colleagues to discover new heights :). There’s are a few guides online on installing Arch on Macbook Pros, but few of them are up-to-date or relevant, especially for my Macbook Pro 11,2 model. Did I mention privacy? Did I mention no pinging to the Apple mothership? :) What lead me to assemble this guide? I can and have to literally cherry-pick every single component for my OS. It’s granularity, minimalist approach, vastness of available packages, their recency, superb community, unbelievable documentation and full control that is passed onto the user was the answer for me. One beautiful day I stumbled upon Arch Linux. I got more and more curious about Linux environment and open source approach and ideology in general.Īfter trying out various Linux distributions now and then I couldn’t find one that would feel just right to me.

Working with open source for years I found myself getting more and more involved with Linux, whether that would simply be web development in and for *nix environment or yet another ssh into a VPS. Specifically web application development.

Only one question still remains - “Why didn’t I use it before?!” Why Arch Linux After years of enjoying the polished and “just working” operating system I finally got fed up and took a plunge. Initially it wasn’t an easy decision to switch from MacOS.

Still applicable in 2019 and probably beyond :) Install Arch Linux on Macbook Pro 11,2 Retina (Install guide for year 2017)

Arch linux macbook pro mid 2014