e-waste go brrrrrrr

Picked up some 'busted' laptops from a mate's work clearout (they were decommissioning a building. I also got nine pine64's and two r202s, mate got a full rack cabinet lol)

One new nvme and one disk repair later and i have a pair of vaios

I read this on my 2013 MacBook Air 2013 running EndeavourOS. It runs amazingly well including video meetings.

I really wish I could install Linux on my old iPad :(

MacBook Air club represent!

You have a lot of incredible Macs waiting to be grabbed for cheap after Apple discontinued support.

Before converting my girlfriend’s MacBook Pro to Linux, I never thought it would be possible. I don’t know why but I thought they were some special inaccessible computers.

It’s just a shame the latest ones aren’t upgradeable. Apparently the last easily upgradeable one was the 2012 MacBook and the 2019 MacPro..not sure though..

For those who want to keep macOS due to some reason: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

i've only owned one macbook in my life and it too came from the e-waste bin and it worked well for about 5 years.

that's also where i got a lot of hardware that i still use to this day.

Not sure if it's e-waste. The CPU should be decent enough for movies and office tasks.

I just replaced the battery in my wife's 2013 mbp. macos runs like absolute shit on it, so i'm excited to flash linux. I like fedora but thinking i'll start with LDME

Im running my 2015 mbp on the newest macOS and it’s still quite okay.

I recently flashed Mint on a MacBook Air 2012, but WiFi is really unstable and slow. Probably a driver issue. I had worse luck with Debian and Fedora.

Is there anything that doesn't run linux lol?

How many hoops (if any) did you have to jump through to install?

I've been running Mint and Debian on old hardware too. A Macbook Air 2011 and one from 2015, and a Mac Mini 2014. Mint works great on them AS LONG AS you have at least 4 GB of RAM, especially since it can install the broadcomm wifi driver. Lots of screenshots and images from them here: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/media

Nice

The best feeling ever!

I have Batocera (Linux-based emulator platform) on a 2011 Mac Mini.

The only caveat is its weak integrated graphics chip that struggles to emulate fifth generation (PSX, N64, etc) and newer consoles, but since I pretty much only play 16 bit and older it's been a solid machine.

What did you do to get the keyboard and mouse to work?

I'm currently daily driving a 2011 MacBook Pro running Arch, and it does surprisingly well. I mean, the screen is a weird resolution, the battery life sucks, and it gets very hot, but other than that ...

What, how???

That awful magsafe adapter design with no strain relief grinds my gears.

Tbh those things are great little thin clients to leave near your couch, despite their age

You should get the Pantheon desktop environment for a more Mac like experience.