On the other hand, I found a thing which can patch a Mac to install a newer
macos . It worked on my old MacBook pro. I'll dig up the info if anyone is
interested
On April 13, 2025 6:48:09 PM MST, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
>What research have you done on your own for this? I don't mind helping however
>I spent about 5 seconds Googling linux on a 2012 mac mini and found what
>you're likely looking for...
>
>Unless you've gotten the model year wrong, it appears that it's a 64-bit
>machine with 64-bit efi, so it should be able to boot/run literally any x86_64
>linux distribution that exists today.
>
>On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, at 6:20 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Ok, the subject pretty much states the problem. Now, I have been doing some
>> research on this and have discovered that this isn’t as apparently easy as
>> it would sound. The firmware in the device is an apple branded firmware,
>> which might need modification or complete replacement in order to install
>> Linux.
>>
>> Much of the research points to several facts:
>> 1. You can install on bare hardware, but the chances of a crash are pretty
>> good
>> 2. May require setting up a custom boot loader
>> 3. Might require a base installation of OS X to maintain usability as an
>> apple device (no further updates possible as this device was end of life as
>> of November 2019.
>>
>> It’s a good machine with some usable parts (cpu, ram, SSD, etc) and I would
>> hate to have to toss a perfectly working piece of hardware in the dumpster
>> (thus contributing to the 2.2 Billion Metric tons of E-waste annually).
>>
>> The unfortunate problem I have is that some methods definitely require
>> visual assistance to carry off and not all distributions will work without
>> some heavy modifications and 3rd party device support (namely the wifi and
>> the graphics interfaces).
>>
>> I might need some visual assistance with this at some point (like during the
>> next plug meeting perhaps?). Anyway, let me know if anyone is willing to
>> help.
>>
>> -Eric
>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Service request Dept.
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