I used Mepis on all my systems back in the day. Way before I experienced modern OS X / macOS. One the most stable OSes I have ever used! Good OS and great people!
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I used Mepis on all my systems back in the day. Way before I experienced modern OS X / macOS. One the most stable OSes I have ever used! Good OS and great people!
iMac 5,1 C2D 2.16GHz 20" late 2006 + Mint. This is one of those 32bit EFI + 64bit CPU -machines.
Well, I had to go and buy some DVD-R -disks and its no easy job anymore.
Then I burned 3 versions of ready made installer ISOs from here. Didn't even try Ubuntu after considering memory matters. Then installed Lubuntu but for some reason didn't get it to boot and finally installed Mint. As usual Mint installation was super smooth. Installed quickly and without problems. Only thing was that it didn't initially see the wifi-card but after installing driver it started to work right away.
I formatted and partitioned the drive beforehand in MacOS. Made a Linux-partition, swap and small one for Grub. Then while installing Mint I manually formatted them to ext4, swap, and grub -types.
I also did install the rEFInd to make booting work smoothly.
Ah, how well I know this! I also had reason to buy some dual-layer discs, and they were hard to find and expensive. Fortunately, I'll probably never need any more...Well, I had to go and buy some DVD-R -disks and its no easy job anymore.
Will be interested to see if you have the 'vanishing mouse cursor' problem on Mint. I haven't properly tried again yet, but think it might have been solved in the background, as it were. My only beef with Mint now is the Blueman program, which is utter garbage for BT peripherals. Other distros have no issue, so long as they don't use that particular BT manager.
I've installed the Mint to Macs many times and never had that problem. To me Mint has been most trouble free of all that I have tried. Not that I've had many troubles with any. Does this happen on BT and wired mouse, what about trackpad?
It happened on all mice I tried. When the chaos of rebuilding my PC has subsided, I'll dig back in some more.
Linux Mint 21.2 (Mate) with OSX theme (because I have always liked the looks of it):
That looks great! I want it too! Is the theme in the Mint stock or loaded from external source? I am not at my Mint machines so can't check myself. Thanks!
Just out of curiosity: Asahi Linux (Arch) on MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 39 on MBA M1 2020
Triple boot with Sonoma 14.2.1 and Asahi Linux m1n1 v1.4.11
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/linux-running-natively-on-m1.2309344/post-32806876
Triple boot with Sonoma 14.2.1 and Asahi Linux m1n1 v1.4.11
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/linux-running-natively-on-m1.2309344/post-32806876
This is the RAM usage of OpenBSD after the PC has been up for almost two hours.
I find it quite impressive considering it is not a bare bones setup.
It is a fully functional 'desktop setup' with bspwm, Polybar, sxhkd, nitrogen, scripts and picom all running at that time.
It is also interesting how the system thinks about security. It makes the security of other systems feel primitive.
Mainly older people do this, and mainly out of habit.
Older people also frequently burn CD and DVD content, although younger generations virtually never do this anymore.