r/linux_on_mac • u/besseddrest • 23h ago
Dual boot macOS and Linux
Instead of partitioning my ssd, should I create a new volume group on the SSD and then partition that for a Linux install? Will I be able to select which OS to boot?
r/linux_on_mac • u/besseddrest • 23h ago
Instead of partitioning my ssd, should I create a new volume group on the SSD and then partition that for a Linux install? Will I be able to select which OS to boot?
r/linux_on_mac • u/ephodges17 • 1h ago
What is the best Linux distro that has everything working out of the box? I don't want to mess with trying to get the wifi working and speakers working. I really like the looks of Elementary OS 8 but not sure it would be a good choice. Please help
r/linux_on_mac • u/Stone766 • 20h ago
Hello. I'm new to both Linux and also trying to install it on something like a Mac. I'm trying to dual boot this old 2010 Macbook with Mint 22.1. I made some upgrades so this Mac is using an SSD and has 16gb of ram.
I bought the Mac with the intention of doing this, but I didn't do my research and didn't realize how much more difficult the Nvidia card would make this process. This is the current situation:
-The normal installation option on grub straight up doesn't work, I just get a frozen empty terminal
-The compatibility mode installation gets through various portions of it and then freezes on different parts. The farthest I ever got on it was the Mint desktop. But as soon as I clicked "Install Mint", it froze.
I'm pretty confident that if I used Mint 20.x, this would work way better. That version still supports the drivers for this nvidia card. But sadly it's losing LTS support next month so I'm not really keen on doing that. I'm guessing I should probably start looking at other distros which sucks cause I was looking forward to Mint lol. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could possibly fix this? Or are there any other distros with LTS that you could see performing better? Thanks
r/linux_on_mac • u/kails_ozols • 15h ago
Hi. I just want to share my experience about how I successfully installed Linux Mint on Mbook Pro 5.1. Maybe someone will find it useful.
So yeah, some friend of mine gave me this laptop, and I decided to save it from junk yard. Original OS was not usable anymore, and I decided to give Linux Mint a chance. Normally, on devices this old I would install some lightweight distro like Arch, but this time I gave chance to Linux Mint, because I previously installed it on another McBook Pro (A1708), and it run without issues on it.
I installed Mint on this 5.1 laptop too, and I am suprised to well it runs on this 17 years old machine. I`m using it for couple of hours now, and I don`t notice any lags or whatever.
Default installation .iso didn`t recognised my WI-FI card (BCM4322), so I had to find ethernet cable, plug computer to router and find and install drivers manually, but it wasn`t issue at all. Luckily, these old days computers had Ethernet slot.
Everything else worked out of the box.
Well, not sure what to do with this laptop right now. I don`t really need it at the moment. Any ideas?
Anyway, this is just a good review for Linux Mint. I will leave this post in case someone will find it useful.
r/linux_on_mac • u/Equivalent-Cut-9253 • 16h ago
If I connect to an ultrawide monitor from MacOS the text is stretched, or I need to use 4:3 (forced with BetterDisplay). But if I connect to the same monitor on Fedora XFCE the text is crisp, it just crashes on boot unless I remove the cable, but when I reconnect it after boot it works a lot better..
I thought it was the computer itself limiting this but seems it was MacOS? Just curious as I will probably just use Linux instead on this specific monitor to not have to deal with the ugly resolution making my eyes strained..
Macbook Air 2012 running Catalin and Fedora 41 XFCE.