The Best Budget Mac for Linux?
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Published 2024-05-18
Apple declared this iMac obsolete about half a decade ago, but I think it has plenty of life left in it. Let's max it out, and install a cutting edge Linux distro - KDE NEON!
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All Comments (21)
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"2019 was half a decade ago" stop π
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Showing the new thermal paste takes a bit of bravery!
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"2019, half a decade ago", you really just wanted to make us all feel really old, didn't you π
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Older Macs have an incredible shelf life. I still use a PowerMac as a file server and an 08 Mac Mini as a secondary machine to this day.
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I bought this iMac for 50$ because the guy thought it was just a screen π Iβm now using it everyday running Monterey, itβs still powerful!
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Konqi and Katie Appreciates you.
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Last week I found a bunch of iMacs on Facebook Marketplace from 2009-2013 for $20-$40 a piece. Perfect condition. I bought a few, put a lightweight Linux distribution on them, and voila! Beautiful computer lab for my kids.
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The default theme of that distro also fits really well with the overall aesthetics.
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Calling 2012 iMacs βvintageβ is so weird to me while I'm still trying to keep my iMac Late 2009 27β alive with hardware upgrades, OCLP and copium, thanks xD
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I sold a 2013 imac a couple of months ago. I had put in an ssd instead of the hybrid hdd that died in 2017. It still worked wonderfully. Btw, if you are going to do this: be very careful when you open the screen as you have to remove the ribbon cables to the screen. Second: the power supply has exposed lines, so do not touch it!
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KDE stands for Kool Desktop Env. the K-Desktop was the OG KDE before it became Plasma.
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I remember being glad that I bought a loaded 2011 27" iMac because Apple was going to make it that much harder to upgrade the iMac with the new, thinner configuration. Oh, if we'd only known just how impossible they would make upgrades... I should go clean up and test that iMac. Maybe I can get Linux working on it, too.
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I have Linux Mint installed with KDE Plasma desktop, and I can agree that KDE is beautiful
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As soon as you got that board out, I was thinking "re-paste he CPU! while you're at it!"
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I'm gonna install Sonoma on a 2010 iMac and daily-drive it for a month. That's "Seananigans" right there!
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Note on the Nouveau driver: the reason it's so slow is because the GPU is set to run at the minimum clock speed, there's actually a script you could run to enable the highest clock speed (though it's still like ~60% performance of the proprietary drivers) Another thing though, I'm not sure if the latest Ubuntu 24.04 comes with the Nvidia drivers for 600-series GPUs anymore (I have a MacBook with 750m)
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I murdered my 2009 iMac replacing the SuperDrive and HDD. Those ribbon cables are really delicate.
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I have tons of Apple and Windows machines that are βobsoleteβ running on the current operating systems through various work arounds and they perform flawlessly
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Fedora 40 has a pretty vanilla KDE 6.0 install, and has kernel 6.8.9 as of 5/18/24. It is a stable cutting edge distro as well.
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More heavy metal montages in the future, please, thanks. Great video, I live for this stuff. I've, just today, installed Fedora 40 KDE Plasma 6, XFCE, GNOME, and Debian 12 KDE Plasma, XFCE, GNOME, and Cinnamon, on my 2015 MacBook Air, everything runs beautifully. I ditched MacOS a long time ago on all of my Apple hardware, even my M1 Air, though I had to keep Sonoma on it in order to run Asahi Fedora. Keep up the amazing work, you're awesome, dude.
