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1. #How to install linux mint on macbook intel core 2 duo how to
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😛 I did a massive amount of searching and eventually stumbled across this answer on AskUbuntu which worked where nothing else did: I followed those instructions and was able to successfully install the official Nvidia drivers without getting a black screen on boot! This being Linux, it was naturally not as simple as just installing the official Nvidia one and being done with, because that resulted in a black screen at boot. Mint comes with an open-source video card driver called “Nouveau” which works but isn’t very performant, and there was lots of screen tearing as I’d scroll or move windows around. The other part is to install the bootloader onto that /boot partition, to make it easy to get rid of everything if you want to go back to single-partition macOS and no Linux.

#How to install linux mint on macbook intel core 2 duo how to

The installer is quite straightforward, but I chose the custom option when it asked how to format the drive, formatted both the 2GB and 100GB partitions as ext4, with the 2GB one mounted at /boot and the 100GB at /. It doesn’t matter which format you choose as it’ll be reformatted as part of the installation process.Īfter partitioning, reboot with the SD card in and the Option key held down, and choose the “EFI Boot” option. Installing Linux requires you to partition the SSD using Disk Utility, I added a 2GB partition for the /boot partition, and another 100GB to install Linux itself onto. My installation method was using Raspberry Pi Imager to write the installation ISO to a spare SD card (despite the name, it can be used to write any ISO: scroll all the way down in the “Choose OS” dialog and select “Use custom”).

It turns out Cinnamon is the one with all the graphical bells and whistles, and it appears that an eight-year ultralight laptop’s video card isn’t up to snuff, so I ended up on “MATE” edition, which looks pretty much identical but works fine. There was zero info on the website about which to choose, I started with Cinnamon but that kept crashing when booting from the installation ISO and giving me a message about being in fallback mode. The first hurdle right out of the gate was which “edition” to choose: Cinnamon, MATE, or xfce. My distribution of choice was Linux Mint, which is Ubuntu-based but less with the constant changes that Canonical keep making.

The MacBook Air still works fine, if a bit slow, on macOS 10.13 but I felt like a bit of nerding! Installation We have a still perfectly usable Late-2010 MacBook Air (“MacBookAir3,2”, model number A1369), but with macOS 10.14 Mojave dropping support for Macs older than 2012 ( it’s possible to extremely-hackily install it on older machines but I’d rather not go down that route), I decided I’d try installing Linux on it. The only additional post-upgrade work I had to do was re-adding the Section "Device" bit to /usr/share/X11//nf as described below to get the brightness keys working again).

#How to install linux mint on macbook intel core 2 duo update

( Update December 2020: I successfully upgraded from Linux Mint 19.3 to Linux Mint 20 by following the official Linux Mint instructions. Notably, no need to install pommed, and including the specific voodoo needed for the 2010 MacBook Air from Ask Ubuntu regarding PCI-E bus identifiers). ( Update May 2020: I’ve re-run through this whole process using Linux Mint 19.3 and have updated this blog post with new details.