As per title, have you experienced any distro on this device? Currently torn between mint/Debian or just vanilla Debian

  • LoucypherOP
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    11 months ago

    Yeah WiFi requires proprietary drivers… it is less of an issue in 2024 as even purist distro like Debian now ship with those. The screen bug sounds annoying though… on which iMac did you experience this?

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Yea, it ships with the driver but not with the firmware needed for that driver (/sys/firmware/) in Arch there is a AUR package to install the firmware and in openSuse you have to run a command, which is written in dmesg error, while connected to the internet. I don’t know how debian handles it.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I have to research that first 😂 but it’s one that has a AMD grafic card that runs on readon driver which seems to not support suspend if booted from EFI if understood that linked threat correctly. Some macs have nvidia grafic card, which don’t work at all, if you boot Linux from EFI. So I guess it’s ideal to boot Linux on any older mac via legacy bios instead of modern EFI.

      • LoucypherOP
        2·
        11 months ago

        Oh yeah forgot about Nvidia!!! Is that tricky to get to work on Debian? Possibly easier on Mint LMDE

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          I don’t know Debian really, i heard that the kernel is somewhat old, but if you use the proprietary drivers anyway, It should not matter

          • LoucypherOP
            2·
            11 months ago

            Just finished the install :) everything worked out of the box with Mint. What an absolute pleasure!