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What, how???
It's an older Intel macbook, those are just like most Windows laptops.
If it was one of the newer macbook M's, it would've been quite difficult at least.
I remember when Apple first switched to using Intel processors, people talked about being able to install Linux and other operating systems easily. I guess Apple didn't like that.