I'm very new to linux world. I've got MacBook Pro laptop with corrupted OS. How to install Linux onto it and what is the best distribution? Any help please.

Apple is extremely proprietary so it is difficult to install another OS on a Mac by design but of course it is possible.

Members here who are familiar with Apple products should be able to help but you will need to provide more information such as how old is your MacBook Pro, does it use UEFI, post some hardware info.

Best is a matter of opinion and I'm sure you will get numerous suggestions. First off, what is the intended use of the computer? There are hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from and that choice is up to you. You can get a general idea of the more popular distributions at the site linked below, on the right of the page the Page Hit Ranking gives you some idea and there are links to the various sites there which will give details on the specific distribution.

https://distrowatch.com/

Asking what is "best distribution" is like asking "what is the best car?"...everyone has an opinion but they're all going to differ, and all have their pros and cons. That said, (as yancek stated), knowing what model/year your Macbook is would let us help more.

Typically, there is a key combination that you can look up, that will let you select the boot device when your system is booting. It is then that you can get your Mac to boot from the Linux installation media of your choice, which can either be USB or optical. Personally, I use openSUSE Tumbleweed on my systems, and I've had very good luck with that distro on iMacs, everything from core2 Duo's to a fairly new i7. Download the 64 bit installation media on a working computer (https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed select the DVD image for x86_64), and follow one of the many tutorials you can find on burning the ISO to a USB stick. Windows tutorial: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a..._using_Windows

From there, boot from it, and follow the installation instructions; shouldn't be harder than that. On a good note, if you want to run only Linux on that system, you will be able to use better/cheaper networking cards and other non-Apple hardware, since you're not tied to OSX any longer.

Examples. https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/ma...n-mac-3637265/

Thank you guys for for help I'll try to apply your suggestions

Try Option + Command + R keys to re-install your macOS via the recovery option add a Shift key to the combination if it supports the internet recovery and you want that option. Much easier than trying to get linux on any Mac.

While that's very true that the internet-recovery option can get MacOS back on easily, I've never had ANY problems getting Linux onto Mac hardware. Everytime I've done it things have 'just worked', but I've typically upgraded things during the build, since I'm no longer bound by Apple's hardware limitations.

On my third desktop iMac now...all have run openSUSE right out of the box, with no more trouble than installing it on any other PC.

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Perhaps it was just my MacPro1,1 that was the problem then. Only way I managed to get an install on it was take the ide drive that was installed in another machine put it in the DVD space on the spare connector as a drive in there in the end. Then when started without any other bootable drive installed in the machine I get to see Debian on it. A rather convoluted process that took hours to get done at the time.

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