Mastodawn

Anyone au fait with #linux on older Intel #Apple hardware?

I see some for sale locally (surplus store) and I think they would make excellent family "just need to do some odds and ends browsing" sort of machines. Maybe as the "family computer" in the dining room.

Obviously, even if it shipped macOS, it's going to be hilariously out of date. But will they run Linux OK? Nothing fancy, just Mint or something.

They are 27" A1419 iMacs, with 7th gen i5 and 8gb of memory, if that helps.

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matthew - retroedge.tech 1d ago

I have installed Linux Mint and Linux Mint Debian Edition on quite a few MacBooks, Mac Minis and done live boots on iMacs.

Doing a Linux install on a Mac Mini today, in fact.

I am guessing that everything will "just work" on an iMac with 7th gen Intel processor.

#Linux #MacMini #Apple #hardware #iMac

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DM54

@matthew @tehstu before lucking into some dell laptops, I was eying off buying an old imac to muck around on. Reddit appeared to flag sound issues on imacs from 2015 and prior? I have no idea if this is actually the case. Anyone have experience with that? I am still semi curious because I love the screen and all in one idea.

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matthew - retroedge.tech 1d ago

I have a few iMacs in my possession that I could test.

My idea was to turn them into retro gaming systems with Batocera Linux, as the iMac screen is good and they have a full size SD card slot.

Sound would definitely have to work for that application.

https://batocera.org/

#iMac #Linux #Batocera

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DM54 1d ago

@matthew @tehstu ooooh, batocera looks cool.