The first and most important step you can take before undertaking any of these steps is to back up your drive. Optionally you might look into purchasing an Apple USB Ethernet cable as it will help when setting up the internet. A MacBook Air - If you don't have a MacBook Air you can pick one up from here.As always if there are better ways to achieve the same goals please feel free to leave a comment. The actual installation isn't too difficult but there are some challenges on the way and the steps highlighted are the steps I used to complete the task. Whilst the rankings have to be taken with a pinch of salt there is clearly merit in writing an article showing the best that Linux has to offer working on hardware that oozes quality.

Linux Mint has been top of the Distrowatch rankings for the past year. This time I am going to show how to install Linux Mint alongside OSX on the MacBook Air. In previous articles I have shown how to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 8 and how to dual boot Ubuntu with ChromeOS on the HP Chromebook.

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