Hopefully this will work my suggestion for you if you're new to Linux is Linux Mint as it will be very friendly to you if you're familiar with the windows environment mint is more targeted at Windows users but it should suffice Just keep in mind that it's possible that your MacBook is beyond hope with Linux as Linux and Mac books off and don't get along unfortunately thanks to Apple's crappy proprietary Hardware bullbleep, as for getting Linux install discs there's always