← Back to context Comment by keysdev 6 months ago Any linux or bsd that has goodhardwawe support for intel mac? 2 comments keysdev Reply bjackman 6 months ago For the older ones with Broadcom WiFi I was able to get stock Ubuntu working great by following this:https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wi...Not sure about the newer ones.Gathering this information and putting together a distro to rescue old Macbooks from the e-waste bin would be a worthwhile project. As far as I can tell they're great hardware.I imagine things get harder once you get into the USB-C era. monkey_monkey 6 months ago This site is very useful for getting Linux on more recent Intel Macs - I was able to get Ubuntu running on a 2018 MBAhttps://t2linux.org/
bjackman 6 months ago For the older ones with Broadcom WiFi I was able to get stock Ubuntu working great by following this:https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wi...Not sure about the newer ones.Gathering this information and putting together a distro to rescue old Macbooks from the e-waste bin would be a worthwhile project. As far as I can tell they're great hardware.I imagine things get harder once you get into the USB-C era. monkey_monkey 6 months ago This site is very useful for getting Linux on more recent Intel Macs - I was able to get Ubuntu running on a 2018 MBAhttps://t2linux.org/
monkey_monkey 6 months ago This site is very useful for getting Linux on more recent Intel Macs - I was able to get Ubuntu running on a 2018 MBAhttps://t2linux.org/
For the older ones with Broadcom WiFi I was able to get stock Ubuntu working great by following this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wi...
Not sure about the newer ones.
Gathering this information and putting together a distro to rescue old Macbooks from the e-waste bin would be a worthwhile project. As far as I can tell they're great hardware.
I imagine things get harder once you get into the USB-C era.
This site is very useful for getting Linux on more recent Intel Macs - I was able to get Ubuntu running on a 2018 MBA
https://t2linux.org/