@gischpelino My understanding is that the boot flag is for BIOS-based systems, and I think this hardware uses EFI. The original Mac hdd has a 200M EFI partition. If that's required, I'd like to set it up on the new ssd, but that will require some creative repartitioning. 💀
My Saturday project was installing #linuxmint on an old Intel MacBook Air from 2017.
Installed without any problems. All devices are recognized.
The best part after installing linux is always that it feels like a new machine.
Je passe enfin à #linux pour donner une nouvelle vie à mon macbook air de... 2013.
Après 12 ans de bons et loyaux services, il tourne toujours aussi bien, mais je ne pouvais plus disposer de certaines applications, notamment ma chouchou #anytype
Je le relance donc pour une durée inconue.
Il est temps d'accentuer ma liberté hors des gafam ! 🎉
I can't get #quickemu to work in #fedora #asahilinux, is this because I'm not smart or because it doesn't support ARM?
I have it running on an intel Ubuntu install.
Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice
https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5
#HackerNews #Linux #Desktop #Apple #Silicon #LinuxOnMac #OpenSource #TechNews
A brief hiccup, first Linux journey, a few days ago.
It looks (and looked) bad, but staring at it now, I see the problem is simple: the installer was writing to the wrong USB. Instead of the target 1TB SSD, it went to the 16MB USB key 'sdb' from which 'Try' Ununtu (a full-blast version of Linux) and the installer had launched and were being hosted—back to its own temporary install, in other words.
Background here:
@sjvn Just gave my 12-year-old #Apple #MacBook Pro a fresh life with Linux Mint. 🚀
On newer machines I go for #Ubuntu, but here I happily skipped #GNOME and went for #KDE. Smooth, fast, and still rocking ~2h battery life. Proof that old hardware can shine again! 💻✨
#LinuxLife #RetroTech #KDEPlasma #FOSSFTW #MintyFresh #LinuxOnMac #OldButGold #HackThePlanet #Linux #Mint
Regular reminder for anyone who might have an Apple Silicon based Mac that Asahi Linux is a thing and a good thing. It's not just Intel Macs that can play nice with Linux.
I love my little M1 Macbook Air. It's great hardware and never gets overheated. But sometimes I need to play with Linux instead of MacOS.
Asahi installation was able to hive off a small partition during setup to dual-boot. It's very smooth and makes for a great desktop. I've got Firefox and LibreOffice and even Proton VPN running nice. It's ready for prime time.
Am sending this toot from Asahi Linux right now :)
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