• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      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.

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      23 days ago

      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.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        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.

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        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. 😂