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Permalink Reply by iЛенин on January 15, 2011 at 9:55pm

Ubuntu 10

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on January 16, 2011 at 12:28am

Ubuntu 10 is a good choice, but another alternative that is known for the one of the best out of the box experiences is Pinguy OS which is found at: http://pinguy-os.sourceforge.net/

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Permalink Reply by JS on January 17, 2011 at 11:25am

Ubuntu 10.10. Well, Kubuntu, then, if KDE is preferred.

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Permalink Reply by Jesse Downing on January 19, 2011 at 4:58am

Ubuntu. But I would think running Windows XP would be better.

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Permalink Reply by JS on January 19, 2011 at 6:18am

Kubuntu (KDE) kicks Windows XP's butt. Besides, who uses a 10 year old operating system, anyways? We were not using Windows 95 in 2004, why should we use XP in 2011?

 

Besides, Windows XP doesn't even run that well on a MacBook Pro. (7 does brilliantly though)

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Permalink Reply by matthew on January 19, 2011 at 5:15am

If KDE is a must for you I would personally recommend that you use Linux Mint KDE. It is based on Ubuntu 10.04 which is the LTS (Long Term Service) Version of Ubuntu. It also comes with all the codecs as well as Flash being preinstalled as well. Kubuntu is not the ideal version to get the best version of KDE. So I always recommend the Mint KDE or Mandriva over it.

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Permalink Reply by Neil L on January 19, 2011 at 3:16pm

I wouldn't suggest running it on your macbook. My local repair shop advises against it because linux can overwork the hard drive. i suggest getting PC hardware to run any linux distro

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Permalink Reply by Marcel Diallo on January 21, 2011 at 9:52am

It appears installing linux wasn't a great idea after all. I can't boot from my restore disk to install OS X back onto my computer. I'm not sure if it's because of Linux, or if the disk is damaged. I received it yesterday as a replacement from Apple since I lost my old one. I tried booting from a Linux disk after and it worked. I have no idea what to do and need Mac software for school.

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Permalink Reply by Dean on January 23, 2011 at 1:38pm

You mean the restore disk does not load to or that it loads and won't install?  If it loads and won't install then likely you need to, when the menubar appears, find disk utility in the options and repartition... this is assuming you installed Linux over OS X and formatted the disk which would have changed it to a DOS or MBR format and not the native OS X type.. which I can't remember what its called at the moment.  If you can boot the install DVD then try that, otherwise you have a different problem than what I'm assuming.  You would have to choose the proper partition type in addition to the filesystem and if I recall there's a button to pop up that menu in disk utility.

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Permalink Reply by Marcel Diallo on January 23, 2011 at 2:17pm

I did install Linux over OS X. However it's not loading at all, I called Apple and they decided to send me another disk, hopefully the first one was just defective.

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