Install linux on mac mini 2012 install#
Install linux on mac mini 2012 pro#
Install linux on mac mini 2012 windows#

Install linux on mac mini 2012 windows#

There is a lot of hardware which only works well under Windows and is a pain to get running using Linux and wireless network cards is a group of hardware where it is not everything that work OOB. Most notably is Apples use of Broadcom and not all Broadcom devices work equally well with Linux. I cannot say what it is with Apple but one could suspect they are protecting their brand by creating technical obstacles for the sole purpose of ensuring that only macOS is running smooth on the hardware - but that is a guess without anything to found it on. Yes that includes Mac - but only for as far as it is specific batches of specific Intel CPU’s and you cannot generalize computerhardware that way. A GUI based solution would be vastly preferable. I refuse to go through all of that again. Every suggestion I found on the internet years back for both Debian and Ubuntu to supposedly solve their problems with wireless, failed to work, but DID make changes to my systems that I could not undo. If I am going to make this transition, I need an OS I can depend on to not abandon me because it doesn’t like older machines, and one that does not push me into a repetition of my experiences of the past, i.e., going through command line entry after command line entry found on the internet, all obsolete, and all on web pages with no date to indicate the possibility of obsolescence. Has Manjaro really made the decision to just not support older machines, making it impossible for me (and anyone else who uses old AND new machines, which is almost everybody) to consider moving to Manjaro? Please tell me that whatever I read, or perhaps just imagine that I read, is not correct.

Install linux on mac mini 2012 pro#

It did see the slower 2.5G ethernet, which of course is pretty much useless.Ī recent (2018) Mac is still my primary work machine, until Photoshop (yes, I know about Gimp, it won’t do at all) and Filemaker Pro (another absolute necessity) are ported over to Linux, neither of which occurrences seem to be in the stars. I installed Manjaro on a late 2012 i5 Mac Mini (SSD + 16 Gigs) and Manjaro simply refused to see the 5G wireless or ethernet connnections that every other computer, phone, security camera system and dog collar I own does see without any help from me. (I have installed mint multiple times on multiple machines, new and old, without ever the slightest problem.) I seem to recall (could be wrong) reading somewhere that Manjaro does not share the interest in supporting older machines that the Mint folks have, and that would appear to be true. They have just gotten too greedy AND they abandon older users which is apparently, also the case with Manjaro(?), making it appear that Manjaro may be a bad choice.)

(Trying to ditch Macs as much as possible. Within the last few months, Mint finally solved all that, but there is no way I am going to run two very different distros of Linux, if I can avoid it, because I have to run at least one Mac. I lost count of the number of times I had to give up on Linux for that reason alone. The biggest problem was ALWAYS the wireless driver(s).

Install linux on mac mini 2012 install#

(No one is likely to install Linux on a new machine that already has a new OS on it.) I started out trying Debian, then later Ubuntu, over and over and OVER again, always failing to install properly and ALWAYS getting advice that would only make sense to someone already experienced with Linux. That very common advice has until recently been a very bad idea for newcomers, at least from my experience. I have used Macs almost exclusively for about 3+ decades, trying on multiple occasions since the early 2000s to “bring an old computer back to life” with Linux. Ran impressively faster than anything else and looked so good it occurred to me to install it onto one of my more serious machines and try it out instead of Mint.Īt this point, a bit more background may help… Manjaro installed MUCH faster, with zero failures or hiccups, did so onto an SB card and then onto an NvMe. So, after trying pretty much everything else for ARM and having them all fail quite miserably, I landed on Manjaro. I use Mint on my other Linux machines (all recent attempts to dive into the Linux pool once again after multiple fails since the early 2000’s), but they don’t have anything for ARM more than a little frustrating.

I recently bought a new Raspberry Pi 4 and went hunting for an OS a bit more serious than what accompanies the Pi. Hi, brand new here, still a bit wet behind the ears with Linux in general.