Just installing Ubuntu on the ol' MacBook Air

@ActionRetro Which generation is that?

I have the MacBookAir6,2 from 2013 which took some digging to get working properly with Linux (most live CDs and installations give a black screen on boot unless adding “nomodeset” to the grub boot options)

https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/110613658727806750

Scott Small 🇨🇦 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Having no luck getting #Linux (or other alternative OSes) running on my Mac IIfx lately, I was feeling kind of down, and decided that I needed to have an easy win 😁 So I pulled my 2013 MacBook Air down from the shelf where it’s been sitting for the last 3 years (it used to be my daily driver until I replaced it with an MBP in 2020), wiped it clean, and installed #Lubuntu 22.04.2 on it. It wasn't too hard to get going - I had to tether to my phone in order to download the Broadcom wifi driver (but that's pretty well documented). The other tricky thing was that I was getting a black screen on boot, which required adding “nomodeset" to the grub config to fix. It's nice to see this machine feeling snappy again, but the question remains, what should I do with it? #RetroComputing (maybe, is it really retro when it's only a 10 year old machine?)

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@smallsco @ActionRetro I have that same 2013 model! Used it every day until 2020 and it’s still in excellent condition. The laptop I bought to replace it just died a few days ago. Not even half the age. Bah! >_< I might resurrect mine with Fedora.