- DickFiasco ( @DickFiasco@lemm.ee ) 26•23 days ago
MacBook Air club represent!
noice! I guess you had to setup the wifi drivers while connected on ethernet, right?
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) 22•23 days ago
i’ve only owned one macbook in my life and it too came from the e-waste bin and it worked well for about 5 years.
that’s also where i got a lot of hardware that i still use to this day.
- HulkSmashBurgers ( @HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ) 9•23 days ago
Is there anything that doesn’t run linux lol?
How many hoops (if any) did you have to jump through to install?
none my dude, it installs just like it would install on a windows machine. the CPU is just a basic intel i7. It would be a different story if this was one of the newest M1x macs…
- HulkSmashBurgers ( @HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ) 1•23 days ago
Oh nice.
- cmnybo ( @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) English7•23 days ago
Someone got Linux to run on an Intel 4004. It does take over a week to boot though. As long as you can connect a sufficient amount of memory to a CPU, it can boot Linux. If the CPU doesn’t support Linux, it can emulate a CPU that does.
- HulkSmashBurgers ( @HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ) 3•23 days ago
Oh pretty cool!
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 5•23 days ago
Some toasters can’t.
- HulkSmashBurgers ( @HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ) 2•23 days ago
The lame ones can’t!
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English2•23 days ago
(Sobs in Brave Little Toaster noises)
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English9•23 days ago
I’ve been running Mint and Debian on old hardware too. A Macbook Air 2011 and one from 2015, and a Mac Mini 2014. Mint works great on them AS LONG AS you have at least 4 GB of RAM, especially since it can install the broadcomm wifi driver. Lots of screenshots and images from them here: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/media
- 0x0 ( @0x0@programming.dev ) 3•23 days ago
old hardware […] at least 4 GB of RAM,
Not that old then…
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English3•23 days ago
The oldest I have is from 2009. It’s quite old. It came with 4 GB of RAM. That’s how I was buying computers back then, with enough ram. We have to go back to 2006 to find me buying a computer with 2 GB of RAM. I got my lesson in 1995, shortly after having bought my first PC, a 486DX/40 with 4 MB of RAM. 6 months later Windows95 came out, and I couldn’t run it, it needed a minimum of 8 MB. It was swapping like hell. So I got my lesson early on. Now, I buy new laptops or computers with minimum of 32 GB of RAM.
- dylanmorgan ( @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ) 1•23 days ago
Do you have any insight into getting Linux to play nice with the different components of fusion drives? I have an old iMac and Mac mini both with Fusion Drive and after installing fedora or Ubuntu the SSD is seen and mounts fine but while the HDD is seen it doesn’t mount at startup despite setting it to mount at startup. I’d like to use these machines for some archiving and media hosting but that’s difficult if I can’t reliably access the much higher capacity drives.
- UntitledQuitting ( @UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com ) 8•23 days ago
I just replaced the battery in my wife’s 2013 mbp. macos runs like absolute shit on it, so i’m excited to flash linux. I like fedora but thinking i’ll start with LDME
Fedora might run well but LMDE will 100%
- Ascend910 ( @Ascend910@lemmy.ml ) English6•23 days ago
Debian will run on anything
- T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) 6•22 days ago
I really wish I could install Linux on my old iPad :(
Same…
- aquafunkalisticbootywhap ( @aquafunk@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•21 days ago
I played around with old iPads for a bit and then gave up. successful vendor lock for sure. I just wanted a home assistant front end without having to sign in to apple or use safari
- T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) 1•21 days ago
Yeah I won’t be buying an iPad ever again haha
- Panos Alevropoulos ( @panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml ) 5•23 days ago
I recently flashed Mint on a MacBook Air 2012, but WiFi is really unstable and slow. Probably a driver issue. I had worse luck with Debian and Fedora.
- ADandHD ( @ADandHD@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•23 days ago
Had the same issue on MacBook pro 2012. Solution for me was to use broadcom-wl-dkms in case that might help you as well
did not test with classic Mint but LMDE has been rock solid with WiFi
- glowie ( @glowie@h4x0r.host ) 4•23 days ago
Nice
Nice
- NastyNative ( @NastyNative@mander.xyz ) English3•23 days ago
The best feeling ever!
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English2•23 days ago
That awful magsafe adapter design with no strain relief grinds my gears.
- thejml ( @thejml@lemm.ee ) English6•23 days ago
I still don’t know how people manage to fray those things. I used my 2013 for 10 yrs and the cable is still like new. They’re built pretty well. However, I do appreciate that the new ones are just usbc cables that plug into the brick so you can swap the cable if it does start to wear. Or so you can use MagSafe cables on non-apple power supplies.
- zagaberoo ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 5•23 days ago
Plus you can plug the mac into itself for free charging.
- binarybomb ( @binarybomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•23 days ago
What, how???
a simple install of the good old LMDE, everything worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box. It runs even smoother than vanilla Debian
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 2•23 days ago
Did you have to do any special configuration, or was it a seamless installation just like a non-mac laptop?
it was exactly flashing a windows laptop, no difference whatsoever :)
- sic_semper_tyrannis ( @sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ) English1•23 days ago
Oh I didn’t realize it was like that. I’ll have to re-visit my Mom’s Macbook
- embed_me ( @embed_me@programming.dev ) 3•23 days ago
As another user pointed out, the ones with Intel chips work well ie older models (idk the details as I don’t use Apple products)
- sic_semper_tyrannis ( @sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ) English1•23 days ago
I know she doesn’t have the “M” chip, so I’d guess it’s an Intel
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 1•23 days ago
I’ve been going with Spiral Linux lately when I need a VM for something (works really well in a VM), but I might have to give LMDE a try!
it you are looking for an OS that just runs, doesn’t receive tons of updates and stay stable as a rock… LMDE will make you fall in love
- Fonzie! ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 1•23 days ago
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.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 2•23 days ago
You should get the Pantheon desktop environment for a more Mac like experience.