Alastair, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro Nice

glitchbyte, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro nice. Love your YouTube channel. I think I watched this one was amazed by the magnetic screen thingy.

mmu_man, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro made me think, were there any Mac with an LGA775 socket?

https://linustechtips.com/topic/363422-how-to-using-a-lga-771-xeon-in-a-lga-775-motherboard-aka-771-mod/

I did that in a Dell Optiplex 755…

mmu_man, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro oh, seems so:

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-sort/?sort=all-macs&field[Processor%20Upgrade][0]=LGA%20775%20(Socket%20T

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8247523

juanejot, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro I’ve had success with XFCE & Arch on mobile (like yours is semi-mobile) Mac hardware nearly as old (2009 MBP5,3), as well as with Linux Mint Cinnamon (which keeps most GNOME stuff happily running, if you need apps/extensions from there, whereas XFCE does OK through GTK3). But it does have an Nvidia GPU (using nouveau), so YMMV. Gonna try LMDE soon, but would rather wait for 6 than kludge bookworm/faye onto daily driver hardware.

macseminare, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro Neat! I installed Linux on a 2009 iMac. I had great success with Manjaro XFCE as well as Xubuntu. Even Kubuntu worked quite smoothly.

cablespaghetti, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro I love installing Linux on shit old hardware a little bit too much. I feel like this video was made for me. 😆 @codemonkeymike and @aaronage also spring to mind as fellow scrap hardware aficionados. 😁

CodingItWrong, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro hah I just bought the 2009 at #vcfsoutheast. Plan is to put Haiku and try a variety of Linux distros on it. Looking forward to this video!

bastilian, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro my kind of engineering.

hub, 9 months ago

@ActionRetro I used to run Ubuntu on my Pismo.