The instructions above work, and for all Intel based Macintosh
computers. However they have one problem - the instructions describe a
route that requires the user to spare the OS X.

For instance Mac Minis use laptop HDDs which are either small or very
expensive. Sparing OS X will eat some 15-20 gigabytes of the precious
space.

Getting rid of OS X partition and getting Ubuntu to work as the only
installed operating system is possible. However it requires steps that
are not described completely in the above tutorial or its links. To put
it short, it's at this moment nearly hellish task for an average user.

Some of the Mac hardware is quite reasonaly priced and excellent for
running Ubuntu. Unfortunately Ubuntu itself isn't very friendly towards
Macs. (Lack of EFI support by default at installer, EFI aware grub/lilo,
ability to install EFI bootloader that enables proper video bios
functions for accelerated X11, ...)

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Ubuntu as primary OS in intel MacBooks
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58484

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