i… gasp… sigh. you are correct. to be fair and show my age, my first linux box was slackware on a 486dx. had that bad boy in a plexi case serving up badass 90’s era perl scripts. 😂
I’ve got a 2012 Mac book pro with arch Linux running great on it, other than some jiggery with the WiFi driver.
If it’s intel, it is totally a non issue that it’s a Mac, other than the ones from around 2012 need a couple of extra commands to get WiFi connected in the instillation image boot , and an extra package needs to be specified for instal to make sure it will be able to connect afterwards. Ethernet works without any jiggery or pokery.
Can confirm, arch runs fine on my 2014 macbook pro too. Does definitely require some adjusting to get there, but if you wanna use arch that’s a given anyway. Gnome desktop has decent multi touch support for the trackpad out of the box IIRC.
Is it one of the more recent ones, i.e. one with a T2 chip? If so, T2 Linux might be for you. Got Arch running on a 2019 MacBook Pro this way. The WiFi kernel module causes quite a few issues, so it’s a bit of a pain to install and even after that, WiFi will stop working occasionally, but reloading the kernel module helps if that happens. Definitely far from perfect, but still somewhat usable.
I think it’s also possible and easier to install on older MacBooks without the T2 chip, but not sure since I have no experience with those.
Linux on older Intel Macs is genuinely a 10/10 experience in most cases I’ve run it on. The one hiccup that comes up is needing to add NOMODESET to* your grub entry.
i wanna use arch but my daily driver is a macbook pro with intel silicon.
you get what you deserve
i… gasp… sigh. you are correct. to be fair and show my age, my first linux box was slackware on a 486dx. had that bad boy in a plexi case serving up badass 90’s era perl scripts. 😂
I got good news for you, come October 15th there will be a whole bunch of cheap liquidated ThinkPad laptops flooding Ebay, join us.
Really? Are they decent? Where are they coming from?
Windows 10 EOL, all of the computers with hardware “unsupported” by Windows 11 will be liquidated by businesses.
at our company, we threw out a Lenovo Yoga X390. Technically, W11 would be supported, but it’s 6 years old now, so it goes in the trash.
I made sure it’s “disposed of” properly. In totally unrelated news, I installed manjaro on my new Lenovo Yoga X390, which I found in the trash.
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I’ve got a 2012 Mac book pro with arch Linux running great on it, other than some jiggery with the WiFi driver.
If it’s intel, it is totally a non issue that it’s a Mac, other than the ones from around 2012 need a couple of extra commands to get WiFi connected in the instillation image boot , and an extra package needs to be specified for instal to make sure it will be able to connect afterwards. Ethernet works without any jiggery or pokery.
Can confirm, arch runs fine on my 2014 macbook pro too. Does definitely require some adjusting to get there, but if you wanna use arch that’s a given anyway. Gnome desktop has decent multi touch support for the trackpad out of the box IIRC.
cool!
Is it one of the more recent ones, i.e. one with a T2 chip? If so, T2 Linux might be for you. Got Arch running on a 2019 MacBook Pro this way. The WiFi kernel module causes quite a few issues, so it’s a bit of a pain to install and even after that, WiFi will stop working occasionally, but reloading the kernel module helps if that happens. Definitely far from perfect, but still somewhat usable.
I think it’s also possible and easier to install on older MacBooks without the T2 chip, but not sure since I have no experience with those.
Linux on older Intel Macs is genuinely a 10/10 experience in most cases I’ve run it on. The one hiccup that comes up is needing to add
NOMODESETto* your grub entry.asahi! fedora is fiiiine
That would be for Apple silicon, not intel.
ah… i read “silicon” and nothing else
Intel . . . silicon?