February 11th, 2023 at 9:26 PM
I have a few older Macs lying around that I've been looking for good uses for. My college laptop was a 2012 and it was pretty decent for its time (doesn't receive software updates anymore, stuck on Catalina. Opencore works for more recent versions, but I prefer having older OS versions on older hardware anyway).
I also have a 2017 that was a work laptop at one point, and it's a dual core model much like the 2012 (although with a much higher clock speed and a newer architecture, so it performs noticeably better). I don't have any PCs laying around anymore and missed having an Ubuntu computer, so rather than going up to a pawn shop to buy a cheap laptop, I figured I'd throw Ubuntu on this thing instead.
Despite this thing being a Mac, Ubuntu has actually worked quite well on it. I had to install a few custom kernel modules to fix bluetooth and speaker drivers, and had to fix a couple of issues with it crashing on suspend and using too much power for the CPU (tlp fixed this, Mac has a bad battery so unexpected shutdowns can occur if the processor tries to draw too much).
Aside for a few things that required manual fixes, it's been working more smoothly than I expected. I like Ubuntu/Gnome 3 better than Mac OS (it's very Mac-like but much less cluttered), and it's been snappier than Mac OS has been on a dual core processor.
Anyone else ever installed Linux onto Mac hardware? How well did it run?
I also have a 2017 that was a work laptop at one point, and it's a dual core model much like the 2012 (although with a much higher clock speed and a newer architecture, so it performs noticeably better). I don't have any PCs laying around anymore and missed having an Ubuntu computer, so rather than going up to a pawn shop to buy a cheap laptop, I figured I'd throw Ubuntu on this thing instead.
Despite this thing being a Mac, Ubuntu has actually worked quite well on it. I had to install a few custom kernel modules to fix bluetooth and speaker drivers, and had to fix a couple of issues with it crashing on suspend and using too much power for the CPU (tlp fixed this, Mac has a bad battery so unexpected shutdowns can occur if the processor tries to draw too much).
Aside for a few things that required manual fixes, it's been working more smoothly than I expected. I like Ubuntu/Gnome 3 better than Mac OS (it's very Mac-like but much less cluttered), and it's been snappier than Mac OS has been on a dual core processor.
Anyone else ever installed Linux onto Mac hardware? How well did it run?
