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I put Ubuntu 23.04 on my old 11" Macbook Air, and it's much awesomer than I expected
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Distro's Projects@ActionRetro Linux on old Intel Macs is great! Pretty good hardware support in general. I've run tons of distros on Macs (username checks out) and it's great!
Leo@ActionRetro I get a heart attack, every time someone scrubs his MB over a table without protection š¤Ŗ
Dave@ActionRetro what do you reckon is the oldest Mac that modern Ubuntu will run on?
@sudoaptgetlife I bet it can run on any of the 64 bit Intel Macs - even the ones with the hybrid 32/64 bit with a special bootloader thats out there.
Edit: link - https://mattgadient.com/linux-dvd-images-and-how-to-for-32-bit-efi-macs-late-2006-models/
cleanycloth@ActionRetro @sudoaptgetlife I ran Linux Mint 64bit alongside Lion on a 2006 iMac with rEFInd IIRC, was a bit of a faff but it worked!
juanejot@sudoaptgetlife @ActionRetro The oldest I daily-drive is a 2009 MBP5,3 (so, just after that switch) with 
21.2 beta (So, 
w/
instead of 
, native flatpaks instead of snaps).
Would happily distro-hop to LMDE 6 once itās out, or to
, but will never go back to 
; because no modern security (10.11 was the latest officially supported; no Homebrew or MacPorts) and/or sounds like a jet taking off with any newer version.
21.2 beta (So, w/ instead of , native flatpaks instead of snaps).Would happily distro-hop to LMDE 6 once itās out, or to
, but will never go back to ; because no modern security (10.11 was the latest officially supported; no Homebrew or MacPorts) and/or sounds like a jet taking off with any newer version.
benedolt@sudoaptgetlife @ActionRetro You can run Ubuntu on all Intel Macs. (Haven't tried the PPC ones...) In my pile of laptops I have a MacBook from 2006 running Ubuntu 16.04. (The very first MacBook revision is 32-bit only, so upgrading isn't an option.) It works but it's not really usable for e.g. webbrowsing.
I also have a 2010 Core 2 Duo MacBook, the white polycarbonate one, and that runs Ubuntu 22.04 perfectly and is still very usable! Just don't expect 4K Youtube to work. :D
@benedolt @ActionRetro I have a late 2007 Macbook which i believe is also one of the 32-bit models. The newest OS i've got running on that was Windows 10 through boot camp. Haven't tried any Linux distros on it yet.
@benedolt @ActionRetro If i remember right it was not happy running 32-bit Win 10 so i just restored the boot camp partition back to Win 7 and left it at that lol.
@sudoaptgetlife @ActionRetro If I remember correctly, only the 2006 MacBook is a true 32bit machine. Starting with the second revision in 2007 the MacBook is actually 64bit capable, but the EFI is still 32bit-only, so you have to use a 32bit bootloader. That's doable, but it's bit tricky... And obviously it's too much for Windows 10! lol I wonder how fast win10 would run, if you'd get it to boot...
@benedolt @ActionRetro tbf its within the system requirements for win 10 32-bit (barely), I'm pretty sure it did boot but ran like shit, basically exactly as you would expect with the spec available.
I think it was ok just navigating the OS but as soon as you try to do something that requires more cpu or gpu power than it has available then it would have problems.
I think it was ok just navigating the OS but as soon as you try to do something that requires more cpu or gpu power than it has available then it would have problems.
@sudoaptgetlife Interesting! Yeah, I'd expect it to run really badly - but cool that it boots at all!
@ActionRetro I have my 2012 13ā i7 MacBook Pro triple booted with Mojave, Windows 10, and Ubuntu. Absolutely rapid little machine and I love it š
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FaBE@ActionRetro Will it run #HaikuOS without problems? Someoneās gotta find outā¦
@fabe @ActionRetro In my very limited testing with the live USB, r1b4 boots just fine (in fact, better than on 9th-gen Intel bare metal!), but I canāt seem to find a WiFi driver or how to add an interface for it.
@juanejot hook it up the a LAN, open Terminal and type
install-wifi-firmwares.sh
That should work.
See here: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-wlan.html
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install-wifi-firmwares.sh
That should work.
See here: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-wlan.html
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@fabe @ActionRetro Thanks! They download & (apparently) install, but donāt seem to see the bcm4322 either through the GUI network preferences, nor through the CLI configuration instructions listed. The device is seen by the device tree app, the drivers just seemingly donāt apply to use it for the network.
But I AM happy that updates downloaded to the live install media survive reboots; always allows me to try with the latest software!
But I AM happy that updates downloaded to the live install media survive reboots; always allows me to try with the latest software!
Solicitor@ActionRetro bro, I like your Linux "shenanigans" please keep up the good workš§ššø
Luke Cyca@ActionRetro I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a 2008 Mac Pro and it's a fantastic server and workstation. RAID10 across 4x 2TB drives, 24GB of memory, 1x 4core Xeon E5462 @ 2.8Ghz. And it was free!
@lukecyca @ActionRetro That's awesome!!! š¤©
"Big Emmy" Cariglino@ActionRetro loved this; my road warrior lappy continues to be the ThinkPad X270 I picked up a couple weeks ago (previously used an X220) and I routinely get about 10-12h on a charge under constant use, sometimes better if I go a long stretch without playing video!
rodti@ActionRetro Loved this video, I have a 2015 11ā kicking around and itās one of my favourite ever laptops.
super_user_do@ActionRetro This is, in my opinion, the best experience you can have on such an old device.