Introduction - First MX install on macbook pro 2012

[tghuguenin]

Hello guys

Way back in 2008, while I was in college, I installed Kubuntu on my then macbook, one of those white plastic ones, can't remember all the specs. Had it dualbooting whatever was current macOS at the time (snow leopard maybe?). Did that for a little while but used macOS as my daily OS and never really did much with kubuntu, especially since I couldn't get the wifi to work, so I got rid of that patition pretty fast and focused on other things. Didn't want to mess around with it much until lately... Back in 2016 I bought a mid-2012 macbook pro 9,2... stopped getting updates somewhere around Catalina. finally upgraded last week to an M4 MacBookPro. All that to say I now have this older macbook pro that is still working okay (had put an SSD in it a few years back when the HDD failed), so now I have a dedicated tinkering laptop! I remembered having a bunch of hurdles to installing kubuntu, also that wifi problem (probably could have solved by connecting to the router via ethernet, but I was at my parents house on break and didn't feel like having dad ask what I was doing)

Imagine my shock and pleasure when I loaded the usb live stick, and everything just WORKED. wifi, trackpad, etc. I was prepared to have to track down drivers and firmware updates and all that, but no. So I installed from there, thinking surely there will be some bump in the road, but there wasn't. My mom could have done this. So now I'm writing this from my first fully dedicated linux laptop, running MX Linux with KDE. Happy to be here and looking forward to being part of the community.

[j2mcgreg]

Welcome to the forum and the better way.

[tghuguenin]

Welcome to the forum and the better way.

Thanks! I still love macOS but it's fun to mess around with linux a bit and I'm liking MX so far

[operadude]

@tghuguenin

[legacyland]

Yes, welcome! I have a bunch of old macs laying around and have been putting various distros on them since about 2015. MX has come to the point where it is pretty much painless, performant, and a lot of fun. I have one very low powered 2006 white iMac that's a daily driver next to my couch for web reference, running the latest MX-fluxbox.

If you wish to tinker, I can recommend doing an arch install, the documentation is great, and you'll learn about all the parts of an OS that we normally take for granted. Then you'll really appreciate the MX packaging and integration.

[m_pav]

Welcome aboard. I try to always have a Mac on hand, but not to use their OS, To me, it looks nice, feels nice, feels peaceful, but when I want to get anything done as a tech would, not as a user, I find their their inherit limits within a few seconds, kinda reminiscent of their underlying FreeBSD based OS. It just takes too long to get stuff done with them, so I typically shrink the partition and liberate them with MX where I can some real work done without having my thoughts go south.