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When it finishes you may want to restart the VM, but that does not appear to be a requirement. However, I also happen to use a lot of Linux VMs, where the option to “Clean Up” is not available to shrink disk size.įortunately, you can accomplish the same thing from the Terminal inside the Linux VM. This is useful and I do it regularly for VMs that are on my SSD where space is precious. This will shrink the size of the VM to the actual amount of disk spaces being used by removing the space marked as Reclaimable. Do this by going to the VM’s General settings in Fusion and click Clean Up Virtual Machine.

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This is another reason why using Linux in a VM is better than on bare metal (at least on newer Apple hardware).I primarily use VMware Fusion, which lets you shrink the VM disk files if you have a Windows VM. Most times a user will need to take general Linux information & procedures and apply it to their own specific case and figure it out (although with enough details users on a Linux forum will be glad to try assisting).

There is not much information on Linux support for USB-C Macs, and those two links were the only ones available last time I searched (there was another one, but it was outdated & superseded by the Dundean link.Īs mentions, for Linux issues you will usually be better served on a Linux forum or a more general technical forum, but keep in mind on those forums there probably won't be many users who are familiar with Apple hardware.

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I provided the T2 link just for reference as its information may be more up to date than the other link (some items may overlap a bit with some older models like perhaps WiFi), plus just to be safe since a lot of people post the wrong model of their Macs. When running one OS in a VM, then yes, the two operating systems will be competing for limited resources such as memory & CPU time, plus GPU hardware acceleration is usually not available in a VM which may affect the performance of both operating systems. If you are booting macOS and Linux on bare metal, then they don't interfere with one another since only one OS is running at any one time (one of the downsides of dual booting).

#Vmware fusion linux mint on mac install#

This is something you will need to research or ask on Linux dedicated forums if the need ever arises where you need to install a driver to make the hardware work.

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I personally try to use the distribution's drivers since they usually don't cause problems when updating the Linux kernel which many times can cause a binary only driver to break. Which is better to use a lot of times depends on the situation.

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Usually when working with drivers you need to identify the exact hardware identifier of the hardware needing a driver which is usually done through the command line to get the specific information which can then be used to locate the driver in the Linux distribution's software repositories or to get more information/assistance when searching online.įor some hardware peripherals the product manufacturer may provide Linux drivers (usually binary only) from their website, but the majority of time the Linux distribution's software repositories will contain at the very least a basic open source driver. If some Apple hardware on the laptop is not functioning, then use those articles I provided as a guide if a specific driver needs to be installed to operate some feature on this Mac. Most Linux distributions contain all the available open source and even a few closed sourced binary drivers in their software repositories. Here are a couple of sites with information about the status of Linux support on the 2016+ USB-C Macs: I never recommend installing another OS to the same boot drive (especially the main internal boot drive because modifying partitions is always risky and could lead to each OS being unbootable and possibly loss of data (or at least access to data). Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu (or Debian if using the LMD edition).

I did install Ubuntu to an external drive which did boot a USB-C Mac, but I only booted it one time to see if that version of Ubuntu would work at the time since I like to use Linux to test computers I'm working on. Running Linux in a Virtual Machine (VM) is the safest option as long as the shared resources and lack of GPU hardware acceleration is acceptable (for most things this won't be a problem). Linux Mint does install and work fine on the older 2007 - 2015 Macs and it is always safer to install to an external drive to minimize risk to the macOS installation. A lot of things may not work (especially WiFi). Linux support for the USB-C Macs is spotty at best.