This doesn't really help with your problem, but to address the specific question below: I run CentOS 7, and previously 6, on a Mac Pro (MacPro4,1). My experience has been good. I haven't bothered running anything to read hfs volumes as I'm not dual-booting it. I have a separate MacBook Pro machine for my OS X needs. We run mostly CentOS for servers, but on the desktop side of things we are fairly Mac heavy. I wanted something decent to run a CentOS desktop and this hardware was available at the time. > On Sep 13, 2015, at 19:33, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, > particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making > life easier?