Alas, the update failed and I was left with endless kernel panic messages and the Mac would no longer boot to a usable state. I decided to go ahead and do this wondering what impact it would have on the system stability. When I booted it up to clean out my files it prompted me to update the OS to Yosemite. Because I have another MacBook that I use for business and some dev work, I was contemplating giving this older MacBook away and replacing it with a smaller laptop, netbook or even Chromebook for regular internet use. I was running OS X Lion on it but it was sluggish and would heat up after running for only a short time. I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that was quickly becoming fairly useless.

I will cover my process of experimenting with various distros and why I finally settled on Manjaro, and what hitches I ran into on the way and how I solved them. In this post I am going to briefly outline the process I went through installing a Linux distro to run as the only OS on my MacBook Pro.

How to install linux on old macbook pro