Linux on a 2014 macbook air?
A friend of mine has an old macbook air. It still works, more or less, but the OS isn't getting any updates anymore, and updating to the latest OS seems dicey.
Has anyone had experience installing linux on an old macbook? From a quick internet search it looks like you can just make a bootable USB and have at it. Thinking mint because it's popular and my friend is a pretty basic user. The laptop will be mostly used for like youtube/netflix and basic web browsing.
Edit: a little extra context: I am moderately comfortable with Linux. I ran mint for a while on my desktop, and I've done software development for a job. I can install docker and start a python project fine, but I'd use a GUI for like partitioning a hard drive.
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On the long march to sovereignty: Niger’s revolution against French neocolonialism enters third year
Partnership with Huawei: How Kazakhstan Plans to Develop 5G, Cloud, and AI
Partnership with Huawei: How Kazakhstan Plans to Develop 5G, Cloud, and AI
Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Huawei Sign Memorandum of Understanding, DKnews.kz reports.The Ministry of DigitalDKNews.kz
Of course it does. It's stolen Nortel stuff.
But, you see, the theft is the problem. I hoped that was obvious.
Best game engine to start with as a beginner to gamedev and linux?
Hi, game developer here.
If you're just starting out, Unity is a bit more mature and established - and it works fine on Linux. There are also quite a few resources for getting started that apply to the current version out there (E.g. It isn't rapidly changing too much at the moment for someone just starting out). It also has the best mobile support of any engine out there, so if you want to test your game on a phone that's your best bet.
Godot is popular among hobbyists, and could be a fun start, but I don't know of any serious games being made in it yet (having said that, I know quite a few folk who are currently evaluating it, so maybe in a few years).
But, really, my recommendation is to focus on learning a programming language first. Figure out the ins and outs of basic C#, then start learning about an engine that utilizes it.
I'm only saying this because it sounds like you're looking into how to build games, not just one specific role of the process: if that's the case, starting with some basic C# tutorials/classes would help a lot.
Once you know the be basics it will be much simpler to work with an established Engine, and jumping from one to another will also have less friction.
Finally, remember that scratch is a good tool to learn about how to program. If you're feeling like you've mastered it, now is a great time to move on to a proper programming language.
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33974624
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalitionfrom Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition
from Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33974624
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalitionfrom Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition
from Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
AMOLED Linux?
I havent used Ubuntu in a long time but im guessing its a similar process to Debian. Open terminal and type
sudo apt install gnome-tweakssudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager
Go into the extension manager. Click browse and search for and get blur my shell, and User Themes. Go to gnome-look.org and go to the gnome shell section and find a theme you like. Place it in the /.themes folder (located in Home create this folder if needed), then click the gear next to User Themes and select the theme you added.
Make sure you get a gnome theme that is made for your current version of gnome or itll look janky. Blur my shell will take your desktop background and fill in some of the dead space with that. There are other nice extensions too. Lock screen Background, AppIndicator and KstatusNotifierItem Support, Caffeine, Weather O'Clock, are some i use.
Mess around with it a bit and get a feel for it is my suggestion. It should be easily reversible so dont be afraid to try stuff out. (You can turn extensions on/off with a click)
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition
from Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan
[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
The Russian Armed Forces take Konstantinovka in a pincer grip — "Military Correspondents"
The Russian Armed Forces take Konstantinovka in a pincer grip — "Military Correspondents": EADaily
EADaily, July 31st, 2025. The Russian army is completing the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Alexandro-Kalinovo, covering the key town of Konstantinovka in this direction from the flanks.EADaily
Museum or Crime Scene? Britain Illegally Holds Egypt’s Cultural Heritage
Museum or Crime Scene? Britain Illegally Holds Egypt’s Cultural Heritage
Many visitors to the British Museum in London have no idea that some of the ancient treasures they admire were looted and stolen.Sputnik International
Scientists Say Your Body Starts Aging Faster After 50—but Not All Parts at Once
Scientists Say Your Body Starts Aging Faster After 50—but Not All Parts at Once
Scientists found certain tissues and organs go through the aging process at different rates than others—they also found the proteins that cause it.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
we are not the same person lol
I barely have time to post on this account let alone an entirely separate one
ratio
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Or maybe just maybe your trapped in an echo chamber. my buddy your necroing a 30 day old thread to stand up for and proudly chest beat about humans killing other humans because you like how red some of those humans leaders claim to be. It's a disgusting take you should re-evaluate. Also the attack that your jabroni is beating his dick over failed and all those Russians are dead now in addition to countless more ukranians
So ultimately you need to take a minute and reflect do you want more dead Russians or do you want more alive Russians. The war continuing only makes more dead Russians. I hate the Russian gov but I am and always will feel for the Russian people led into the slaughter.
I think that's very funny that you're saying this while based on your timestamps and time zone history, you're either posting from China or Siberia. But thank you for assuming that my fascist fuck face government pays me
I am disappointed however that you were not able to answer whether your intention is for more Russians to die or for less Russians to die.
BRICS not working against other countries — Kremlin
BRICS not working against other countries — Kremlin
According to Dmitry Peskov, BRICS was created and is developing so that countries can cooperate in areas of mutual interest for mutual benefitTASS
Trump extends deadline for tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days
Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days, fuelling speculation he could announce pauses for dozens of other countries that face punitive higher import duties from Friday.
As the countdown continues to his deadline for a trade deal – already extended by four weeks from the original 90 days – the US president said he had made the decision to offer more time to Mexico because of the complexities of the trading relationship.
He wrote on social media: “We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.”
A little more than two weeks ago Trump threatened the EU and Mexico with tariffs of 30% on most exports to the US, but last Sunday he concluded a deal with Brussels with a 15% baseline rate from 1 August.
Trump imposes sweeping new tariffs on dozens of countries in latest bid to reshape global trade
High levies affecting some of world’s poorest countries are to go into effect in seven days, while Mexico granted 90-day extensionHelen Livingstone (The Guardian)
What to Do — And Not to Do — About a Judge Like Emil Bove
President Donald Trump’s second term has so far been a constant barrage of unconstitutional actions and illegal orders. So it was thus no surprise when the Senate on Monday confirmed Trump’s former personal lawyer and Justice Department lackey, Emil Bove, to a lifetime appointment on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
That 50 Republican senators would install this fascist bootlicker to one of the most powerful judicial positions in the land for life is, as MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann put it, “a nail in the coffin” for a system of checks and balances on authoritarian presidential overreach.
There’s a risk, however, after a grave blow like this to legal, political, and constitutional norms, that liberal epitaphs to the American constitutional order will mourn the wrong thing.
What to Do — And Not to Do — About a Judge Like Emil Bove
To confront a judge like Emil Bove so committed to Trump’s authoritarianism, we need to recognize the underlying problem.Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
Colonial Theft: How Western Nations are Looting Ukraine's Cultural Treasures
Colonial Theft: How Western Nations are Looting Ukraine's Cultural Treasures
The war in Ukraine is being used as an excuse by European nations to plunder Ukraine's cultural heritage for their museums. Sputnik’s got the proof.Sputnik International
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On the one hand, yes, Dems aren't doing shit for us.
On the other hand, no. Republicans built this concentration camp and I dont believe it would exist if Trump lost.
Russia’s International Reserves Hit Record $695.5 Billion
Despite Sanctions, Russia’s Reserves Reach All-Time High
Russia's international reserves have surpassed $695 billion, reaching a record high despite Western sanctions and frozen assetsAnton Kulikov (Pravda English)
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Three Reasons Why Chasov Yar’s Fall Spells Doom for Ukraine – and What Comes Next
Three Reasons Why Chasov Yar’s Fall Spells Doom for Ukraine – and What Comes Next
Russian forces have liberated the strategic stronghold of Chasov Yar in the DPR. Sputnik asked top military experts from Russia and Europe to comment on the development, and what it means in both the military and political/diplomatic contexts.Sputnik International
Lingmo OS???
Hello, Linux people.
Anyone tried lingmo os? Is it stable? In videos the interface looks kinda clean and its based on Debian. Sounds nice. Anyone made some tests?
Greetings
But as other said, this is a pretty recent one so I would wait a bit before making mines jump on this MacOS like island
Mac OS brew librewolf deprecated?
I reinstalled Librewolf via brew on my Mac and got this message:
Warning: librewolf has been deprecated! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.
Any idea what's happening there?
Would love to have another way to use Librewolf on Mac OS btw... it has to be reinstalled regularly with "brew reinstall librewolf --no-quarantine" because the installation "is broken". Very annoying, but I love Librewolf!
brew install --no-quarantine.
Should the Ghidra cask be removed due to quarantine issues?
Verification This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose...matt-phylum (GitHub)
LOW-maintenance distro solely for VPN hosting?
I want to run a small VM running a very low-maintenance distro for the sole purpose of running a private VPN (preferably WireGuard).
I do this because I want to access all of my ESXi VMs from WAN.
I'm thinking Fedora Server because it has roling-release, so I don't have to reinstall, I guess? But I want it to be very stable, because if it fails I lose access to ALL my VMs.
Immigrant with prosthetic legs thrown into solitary for griping about flooded cell: report
A Liberian-born double amputee was thrown into solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention center after refusing to enter his flooded cell — a move that could have destroyed his battery-powered prosthetic legs and left him unable to walk, according to a report.
Rodney Taylor spent three days in a "restrictive housing unit" at Stewart detention center after guards tried to force him into a cell with an inch of standing water. For Taylor, whose microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs cannot get wet, entering that cell would have been catastrophic, The Guardian reported.
The 46-year-old barber has lived in the U.S. nearly his entire life after arriving from Liberia as a child on a medical visa. He underwent 16 operations and has only two fingers on his right hand.
Immigrant with prosthetic legs thrown into solitary for griping about flooded cell: report
A Liberian-born double amputee was thrown into solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention center after refusing to enter his flooded cell — a move that could have destroyed his battery-powered prosthetic legs and left him unable to walk,…Adam Nichols (Raw Story)
World’s ‘oldest baby’ born from embryo frozen in 1994
The world’s “oldest baby” has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, it has been reported.
Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on 26 July in Ohio to Lindsey and Tim Pierce, using an “adopted” embryo from Linda Archerd, 62, from more than 30 years ago.
In the early 1990s, Archerd and her then husband decided to try in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after struggling to become pregnant. In 1994 four embryos resulted: one was transferred to Archerd and resulted in the birth of a daughter, who is now 30 and mother to a 10-year-old. The other embryos were cryopreserved and stored.
“We didn’t go into it thinking we would break any records,” Lindsey told the MIT Technology Review, which first reported the story. “We just wanted to have a baby.”
World’s ‘oldest baby’ born from embryo frozen in 1994
Parents of boy born in Ohio, US, used ‘adopted’ IVF embryo that had been stored away for more than 30 yearsTobi Thomas (The Guardian)
As Microsoft becomes a $4 trillion company, they "reward" their employees with massive layoffs & demands for "intensity"
Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in memo, after blowout earnings
Microsoft reported a $27 billion quarterly profit, after cutting thousands of jobs. The CFO is keeping up the pressure.Ashley Stewart (Business Insider)
How to test Wayland from a live USB? (Ubuntu/Kubuntu)
Does anyone know how to test a Wayland session with a Kubuntu 24.04 live USB? I'm testing it out now, but I see that it's using an X11 session. I'd like to test how the laptop would work under Wayland instead, before installing Kubuntu or Ubuntu for good.
Some web search lead to this post, which gives quite involved instructions but it's from 2020. Hopefully it's more straightforward now?
Cheers!
Try Wayland on 20.04 live USB
I want to try out Wayland from a live USB session of 20.04.1. I tried the steps in https://askubuntu.com/a/988579/428527 which is regarding 17.04 without success (system settings still indicate X11...Ask Ubuntu
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Thank you. This live USB defaulted to X11 for some reason, but I was able to change to Wayland after the session started.
It turns out Wayland doesn't support my touch/pen-screen: ""Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported". So X11 it is.
Is there way to capture wayland with ffmpeg?
Decentered Podcast S2E3 – Rabble from Nos.Social
Although some people debate whether or not Nostr is part of the Fediverse, the reality is that we have a lot in common, and the networks do overlap in places.
This is a really cool interview. Rabble is someone who started using the Internet in the late 90s to organize protests and bolster independent media. He would go on to become a founding member of Twitter, before focusing his attention on next-generation communication systems such as Secure Scuttlebutt and Nostr.
Dude has a massive depth of knowledge, and is a super cool guy. You can listen to this on my site, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Today, our podcast features an interview with an Internet OG: Evan Henshaw-Plath, aka Rabble. We talk about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of Nostr!
Yep kinda, the white-washing history myth that most US gradeschoolers get taught is that "george washington had wooden teeth". The reality is that a lot of his teeth were from his slaves.
Margaret Kimberly's - Prejudential goes through every US president individually, and has a good chapter on him.
tomcatt360
in reply to jjjalljs • • •just_another_person
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Dariusmiles2123
in reply to just_another_person • • •That is what I’m using on a 2012 MacBook Pro with some upgrades.
It works really well except for when there is an update to the wifi broadcom drivers. Then I have to use my phone to provide internet through USB.
Otherwise it’s a beast but gaming is out of the question.
just_another_person
in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •Dariusmiles2123
in reply to just_another_person • • •I tried running Frostpunk 1 on the MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded with an SSD and 16gb of Ram) and it wouldn’t boot despite the fact that it’s an old game and that I tried some special settings and commands.
I guess you can still play some games on ot, but many are out of reach, even some of the ones you’d think would be playable..
marcie (she/her)
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Durandal
in reply to jjjalljs • • •I put KDE Fedora on a MacBook Air circa 2013 iirc. It’s old heh. It runs well but it hates the new kernel. So after a lot of poking around to find a solution to the full hardware kernel panic lockups I found it was a problem with the wifi, as usual. You might get luckier than me since it’s only a couple chipsets they use that choke.
That said even with that issue I just locked the kernel at 5.15 and it runs just fine. I started with 38 and I’ve upgraded every release until current without any issue.
Bob Robertson IX
in reply to jjjalljs • • •jjjalljs
in reply to Bob Robertson IX • • •Bob Robertson IX
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Vittelius
in reply to Bob Robertson IX • • •The feature is called "WiFi Tethering" and is available on most Android systems (sometimes OEMs or carriers disable it)
On iOS it should enable automatically if you've got a hotspot active and connect your device to your computer via USB
non_burglar
in reply to jjjalljs • • •I ran Xubuntu on a 2011 macbookpro I upgraded to 8gb RAM and an ssd. It runs fine, but it's no longer good as a daily driver because the architecture doesn't support decoding basic video codecs we take for granted to watch youtube and so on.
So it will work, but you may find web-based stuff will make the cpu spike to 90%.
Ulrich
in reply to jjjalljs • • •OpenCore Legacy Patcher
dortania.github.ioegrets
in reply to Ulrich • • •Ulrich
in reply to egrets • • •You don't have to use the latest OS.
Yes, Tahoe will be the last. However that will last you another year and then you'll get a couple more years of security updates after that, so it will still be safe to use. The thing is already >10 years old so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement before then.
Putting Linux on a Mac is, in my experience, a right pain in the ass. They have proprietary hardware and drivers that just make it very painful.
mesa
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in reply to jjjalljs • • •data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to jjjalljs • • •It's pre-T2, so it should be very easy to install a Linux distro on it. The only bit of misery you're going to encounter, as others have said, is the Broadcom drivers. Except for a select few distros, you'll probably need a USB Ethernet adapter for installing the operating system and adding the drivers.
Also, I'd rather put my hand in the circle saw than try running a rolling release on this laptop because the driver uses DKMS, meaning that kernel updates sometimes break it.
I only know this because the desktop I'm typing this on has a Broadcom Wi-Fi card from when I used to bare metal Hackintosh this machine. I've since moved to a nice house with an Ethernet port in every room; also, I just use macOS in a VM these days anyways.
As others have said, OCLP is a thing and a well-oiled machine from what I hear, but also, the oath I have made to the Church of Linuxology demands that I at least recommend Linux.
LeFantome
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I have not had a problem with the WiFi on EOS. It installs fine out of the box.
If you are worried about it breaking, just install both an current and an LTS kernel. If current ever breaks, just boot into LTS. After a couple of days, boot into current again because it is probably fixed.
I have had the FaceTimeHD camera break for a few days before. That is why I run two kernels.
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to LeFantome • • •I always just booted the old kernel when I ran into the issue, but it was less than ideal, which is why I would prefer to run a stable distro in this case.
Also, isn't ElementaryOS a stable distro anyway due to being Ubuntu-based?
LeFantome
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I have not used Elementary in a long time. More “static” than stable though I would say. And you may have a problem with app selection.
It is less of a problem these days with things like Distrobox and Flatpak that you can use to expand your application selection.
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to LeFantome • • •I mean, I think static is stable.
I feel like stability in some contexts means more than just the software not crashing often (although that is the big part); it means being able to expect the behavior to stay the same until you’re ready to upgrade to the next release and confront the new behavior all at once, sort of like upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7.
There’s certainly a place for rolling release - I use Debian Testing on my desktop - but I certainly appreciate being able to go a month without opening my laptop without getting a daunting notification like “There are 1578 updates available “ (on my Debian 12 Thinkpad, it’s usually only double digit, very minor updates).
LeFantome
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •Stable should mean that it runs stable, runs without crashing. In most Linux distros though, stable means “not changing”. That is not the same thing.
So, Debian Stable can ship software with a design problem that makes it prone to crashing. That problem can be solved in a newer version (more stable) but Debian will continue to ship the older version (the crashy one) because that is what stable means to Debian.
A good example is that Debian Trixie is about to ship with NVIDIA drivers from a year ago that have problems with Wayland. There are newer drivers that work better. But Debian will ship the old ones.
Static and stable are not the same thing.
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to LeFantome • • •Yes and no. I think connotation is important here; “stable” means different things in different contexts even within computing, and they both denote different but important things - kind of like free of cost verses freedom.
In the distro case, people need/want a distribution where they know a new version won’t come and break their config when they update at 2 AM and miss it in the changelog, and “stable” has been agreed upon as the term in that context. Of course, that can change, as all language does, but that’s just the current convention.
Also, Debian tends to make sure software is not unusable before stable is shipped (the Nvidia thing is an anomaly I’ll explain below); while they sometimes fail, as you’ve hinted, I find it quite rare that it actually happens. Also, the “static” of Debian isn’t absolute; if something really has a breaking bug or a security vulnerability that affects overall system usability (basically something that can’t be fixed by installing a Flatpak), they will put out a fix, like with the Linux kernel or a web browser (via the security repo, included by default in all installs).
Additionally, looking at this changelog, while the Nvidia situation is objectively a bit embarrassing, it looks like they were working on getting them updated, but just didn’t have much luck - I’m guessing a breaking change in the software that made it harder to package. Also, it’s in the non-free repo, which is on the back burner compared to the rest of the distro - something in the main repo will usually only be at most a few months behind at time of distro release.
tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-…
nvidia-graphics-drivers - Debian Package Tracker
tracker.debian.orgLeFantome
in reply to jjjalljs • • •I have Linux on:
- 2013 MacBook Air
- 2017 MacBook Air
- 2021 MacBook Air
- 2009 MacBook Pro
- 2012 MacBook Pro
- 2008 iMac
- 2015 iMac
- 2013 Mac Pro
I predict that EndeavourOS will run beautifully on your 2014 MacBook Air. You need out-of-kernel drivers for both the Broadcom WiFi and the FacetimeHD camera but EOS has you covered on both. They will both update automatically when you update the kernel. EOS has much faster WiFi on my 2013 than the other distros I have tried. Chimera Linux works beautifully as well but that may not be your scene.
I have not tried Mint on any of the hardware above so unfortunately, I cannot say how well it would work. Perhaps just fine though I wonder about the webcam.
As you guessed, installing Linux on that hardware is just holding down the Option key to boot of the USB. It is pretty close to regular PC hardware with a slightly odd UEFI. Everything works, even all the media keys, brightness control, etc.
You can use OpenCore Legacy Patcher to put a newer version of macOS on that hardware as well. As you can tell though, I think Linux is the better play. You will be amazed at how well the 2014 runs.
[edit: I just read some of the other comments. I never had any of those issues with EOS. I really recommend it for that hardware.]
Mongostein
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Eugenia
in reply to jjjalljs • • •It works but be careful with wifi. The other user said that it works out of the box with endeavourOS, and I know you can install it later with Linux Mint too, but the problem is that this wifi driver for the older chips (from 2011 to 2013 at least) is buggy. In my 2011 macbook air it would crash the whole OS on heavy downloads, and on my 2012 one it won't come up from sleep. So I bought a super tiny supported usb wifi dongle to deal with the problem. Now my two macbook airs work 100% with Linux.
My 2015 macbook air works great with the linux wifi driver, but it has no web cam support, and the driver on github is buggy and not updated for newer kernels anymore.
Dathknight
in reply to jjjalljs • • •I just installed Endeavour0S on a 2013 13" MacBook Pro last week and it was like every other installation.
I had no problems whatsoever.
Even with a current KDE Plasma that little thing runs great.
The only mac specific thing I did was install github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan… for some fan control.
GitHub - linux-on-mac/mbpfan: A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer
GitHubRed_sun_in_the_sky [any]
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Try some debian or antix they go well with older stuff. I have a old 2015 laptop. I run gnome debian 12. Ran antix prior. Its pretty solid.
The installers come with gui partition stuff so don't worry.
jjjalljs
in reply to jjjalljs • • •Update: installed mint. Seems work. Had a problem where it couldn't see the HD. Had to change an option in grub
Pasting what I found online to fix it:
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thank you so much! what was the solution!
for anyone might read this in the future: in the bootmenu where u can select which version of linux u wanna boot u can press "e" and then u need to add intel_iommu=off at the end of the line of the "linux" row - i had some double dashes at the end for me it did the job when I add them before the double dashes.
Then I could see the harddrive and install mint mate on my old macbook air
also needed later on to set the parameter permantent by opening a terminal and used this command
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
edited this line like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_iommu=off"
then save and exit nano and this command for updating the boot thingy
sudo update-grub
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