Here are the steps I used to get Arch (December 2015) running on a 13' 2010 Macbook Pro (MacBookPro7,1)The overall impression is good, just a pity about some stability issues with the Nouveau driver. Most things work out of the box. After a suspend there are artefacts on the screen, and the KDE menu stops working. Restarting X brings it back, but not a workable solution. Using the proprietary drivers for the Nvidia 320M might be the way to go.I read something about having to use BIOS compatibility mode when using the Nvidia drivers, UEFI is not supported. I did try the Nvidia driver first, the result was a black screen, I was not able to Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get out, had to hard reset.I mostly used the Arch wiki for installation instructionsit were not for the what I am assuming is a Nouveau driver issue, I would be happy to use Arch as my everyday machine.

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I have read similar reports about artefacts and other weirdness when using the Nouveau driver.Steps to install:1. Clean install of the latest version of OSXa. Had a copy of El Capitan on an external USB driveb. Used diskmaker X to put El Capitan on an 8GB USB keyc. Rebooted holding down altd. Used disk utility to repartition the disk (250GB Macintosh HD + 250GB Linux)e.

Installed El Capitan on Macintosh HD (250GB)2. Install of Arch on second partitiona. Created bootable USB stick using rufus (windows utility) and latest Arch ISO (December 2015)b. Rebooted holding down altc. Selected EFI boot option from USBd. Selected first Arch boot optione.

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Arch booted without an issue to a root promptf. Used cfdisk to delete previously created linux partition in disk utilityg. Created a new linux partition with a 128MiB gap between the Macintosh HD partition and the linux oneh. Followed regular Archi install guide, but did not install a boot loader3. Installed rEFinda. Downloaded rEFind and copied it to a USB stickb.

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Rebooted into MAC recoveryc. Ran rEFind install scriptd.

REFind boot menu shows OSX and Linux boot optionsa. OSX booted without an issueb. Arch booted with some errors about firmware for the Broadcom wifi card5. To install firmware for the broadcom wireless BCM4322a. Install b43-fw-cutterb. Download broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.gz from AUR and extractc.run b43-cutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.wlapsta.o (this installs the firmware from the driver)6. Getting Xorg workinga.

Installed the nouveau driverb. Installed the fbdev driverc. Manually set up xorg.conf since Xorg -configure failedd.

Installed xinitrce. Installed KDE.