So, I have an old mac mini, one of the flat ones. You know, it’s shaped more flat than the new ones.
I want to put Linux Mint on there.
Or maybe Ubuntu
and then, I am going to buy a really cheap monitor on eBay.
You should do that. It’s great hardware.
I like it because it’s flat.
I would be interested to hear your results and which flavor Linux you end up with. I have one of these just sitting around too.
In my experience, EndeavourOS works best on these old Macs.
People report good results with Mint as well but I get the impression they have to jump though more hoops to get decent WiFi.
I always thought about picking up a older mini just to play around with MacOS, but I use an Iphone for work and it is the most unintuitive OS i have used.
Update us on your linux mini journey!
MacOS is way less stupid than iPhone iOS.
Strangely iOS on an iPod or iPad is less stupid too. I have no idea why that should be, but it is.
I use a MacBook Pro 2012 as a secondary computer and I find it very exciting to install Linux on beautiful hardware like these old Macs.
It’s surprizingly Linux friendly (except reseting the wifi once a year). I don’t know why but previously I never thought you could install Linux on a Mac😅
x86: it’s easy peasy
arm: asahi is where you need to go, and the most recent chips are not really very well supported
Cool
Thumbs up! Refind plus mint and you have yourself a nice little machine! This is my “music when I game” or “quick Google the walkthrough” secondary machine. Mine might be older though.
Couldn’t you juat do that stuff with a phone?
