I recently decided to dual boot linux my macbook air from 2014 (or maybe 2015). Apparently dual booting on macOS works really well, since you will enter GRUB on normal boots, but can enter macOS by holding the alt/option key during boot. However, there are no free wifi drivers available, so you will need to download extra non-free drivers, which can be really annoying if you only have wifi to connect by, and wifi doesn’t work....
Installation (No X11) # Install prerequirements (ignore virtinst if you have x11) sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst sudo usermod -aG kvm $USER sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER Creating a new host (i.e. guest) # NAME-OF-VHOST is whatever you want to call your virtual host # SIZE-IN-MB is how many MBs of RAM you want to give the new host # LOCATION is the location to install from, you can find locations by typing `man virt-install` # NAME-OF-DISK is what disk you want to provide to the vhost, e....
Download android studio Untar it to /opt/android-studio Symlink /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh to /usr/local/bin/android-studio Download oracle’s java Untar it to /opt/oracle-java (Ubuntu) Symlink /opt/oracle-java to /usr/lib/jvm/default-java (Ubuntu) Symlink /opt/oracle-java/bin/java to /usr/bin/java If you have a 64-bit system, you’ll need to install 32-bit libraries: # On ubuntu sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6
These instructions are old and probably don’t work anymore Add spotify-sources to apt-repo echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list Add key apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59 Fetch updates apt-get update Add this stupid old dependency This might not be needed anymore / on other distros. Just do it if the next step doesn’t work wget snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110406T213352Z/pool/main/o/openssl098/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-6_amd64.deb dpkg -i libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-6_amd64.deb Install spotify apt-get install spotify-client Run spotify! spotify