Im a MacOS user as well. I was using Ubuntu in Parallels VM. Just tried to install Brave brower and i get "brave unexpectadly shutdown" error
Is there a specific version of Linux youd recommend for a Mac user with zero linux knowledge?
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The advice I would give is to use Balena etcher or terminal dd to create a bootable Linux OS on a USB stick. Shut down your computer and hold down the option key while powering up. Two boot options will show up, MacOS and the Linux boot. Booting to Linux directly will eliminate the VM problems that are possible. Don’t mess with your boot drive at all and everything should be fine for MacOS. A reboot will automatically result in MacOS booting up. Probably Mint is an easy place to start, Fedora is more streamlined, Manjaro is a decent introduction to the Arch Linux universe, I use Arch and though it isn’t always the easiest system to use, I like the rolling update architecture of the platform. Ubuntu and Debian seem more like Windows to me, and I have never preferred Windows for anything. Please don’t hesitate to ask even the most fundamental questions. I made a lot of mistakes and some people in the forums just assume you know things that people new to the space don’t know. I hope it goes well!
I have two macs and they will not boot into linux. I see the bootable drive there, but it kicks me out and goes to recovery mode then the bootsble usb drive is gone.
Finally got it to at least load.
Linux in general is definitely the wild west of computing, updates often break dependencies, but some stability can be achieve with effort. Belaying updates to a schedule can help with this as well as using a Long Term Support (LTS) kernel.
What did you use to make the bootable drive? There are options with the dd if= method.