Giddy, excited, curious and nervous all at the same time.
Let’s loosen that grip of adobe, microsoft and soon I hope apple too. :-)
Edit: Just hope I’m doing this right…
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Are you installing this on an Apple device? Curious about your experience!
@Lasagna @PlasticPope I use mint on a 2011 MBP 17" (the last 17" MBP). Works fine except for the WiFi.
And I hat to play with the fan control a little. MacBooks always gets to hot. Apple wants there devices quiet, so to fan start, in my opinion, to late and getting to hot. Or what do you think if the CPU reaches 100C?. I try to not getting higher than 80C. This will improve lifespan of the hardware.
And I disabled the GPU, because it was broken. That's a know failure of the 2011 MBP.
I installed on an old apple laptop (Mac book? ... Why arnt they just laptops). And it was fine.
I did have to use a WiFi dongle (or teathered phone hotspot) to get temporary WiFi. I then opened device manager and it got the right WiFi drivers. All good after that.
I think theres Something propriatray that makes newer Mac Books much harder to install on.
Side not. Also installed on some shitty windows tablet that had a 32bit BIOS/uffe but booted to 64bit os. After much trial and error with the live ios I got 32bit grub installed booting to 64bit mint.
@GlenRambo @Lasagna Little hint regarding Wifi-Drivers...
You do not need a temporary internet connection, if you plug in the
installation USB-Stick of LM.
LM then loads the drivers from the Stick.