I have some experience installing Linux Mint on 2012, and 2015 MacBooks.
Whoever going to work on them, if first time… you may want to consider:
1. Replace their old drive if is not an SSD, and max the RAM (8GB, 16GB depending on model).
2. Plug it to an Ethernet cable to make sure the WiFi Drivers can be installed, because not of these models WiFi drive comes in the Linux Mint installer.
3. Attach USB with Linux Mint installer.
4. Plug power cable and Turn it on.
5. Press and hold down the Options key.
6. Choose USB (usually orange icon).
7. Let it boot from USB, it will bring you to the Desktop.
8. At the Desktop double click (or right click and choose open) the Install icon.
9. Follow steps.
10. Once Linux Mint has been installed and machine had rebooted and BEFORE anything else, check and install the WiFi driver (if not installed during the OS installation process. Here is how:
10.1 Click on the Start button, then click on Administration, after that on Driver Manager.
10.2 After the driver (usually it is the WiFi driver) gets installed reboot the laptop.
11. Once the laptop is back the WiFi should be available to use.
12. Now go ahead and proceed applying the regular Software updates (GUI or Terminal, your choice).
I suggest Linux Mint because it’s GUI is easy to navigate, and that encourage new Linux learners.
Thanks,
Daniel
Sweet! A good time for me is around 2PM. Would that work for other folks?
Thanks so much for the additional context, Jenny. Do we have a document or anything else we can start from?
I'm available Sunday to help with this! Who else is in?
-jake
Well, considering that I've got this pile of laptops, maybe I can organize this event. What are folks doing this Sunday?
If they are laptops then we can triage them and redistribute, as part of the
Laptops For All project. But if they're desktops, we can't physically deal
with them and there won't be any demand for them in our audience.
Speaking of which...the Laptops For All project needs volunteers! Who wants
to organize an event where we go through the enormous stacks of laptop
donations and sort the good from the bad?
-jake
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Anca Mosoiu via sudo-discuss wrote:
> A friend of mine is trying to get rid of 6 old macs. Is this something
> Sudo would be interested in?
>
> They are 2011-2015 vintage.
>
> Anca.
>
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