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It's #BlueFriday and let's celebrate by doing something good for the planet. The most eco-friendly device is still the one you already own!
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It's #BlueFriday and let's celebrate by doing something good for the planet. The most eco-friendly device is still the one you already own!
Install GNU/Linux and run new & old HW more efficiently and for longer, reducing the disproportionate #carbon footprint from device production.
Donate the savings to #KDE and #FOSS projects to show your love for all the amazing things we achieve when we work together:
I want to! I have a 2019 MBP that had a corporate image on it, I mistakenly wiped the drive before pulling driver stuff off of it.
Wanted to install something like Mint but saw all the driver issues without having access to the original OSX files. Haven't looked into many other distros yet
Suggestions welcome, any Linux distro is worth trying since it's still a solid piece of hardware.
I'm not sure I understand the problem correctly, but couldn't you reinstall MacOS, get whatever you need from it, then install your preferred distro?
It is a bit finicky, but possible to create a MacOS installer without access to a working Mac, here's how on Windows and Linux
Work system, have to return it next year for the new cycle but they just wipe it - which I already did (oops) and to reinstall I'd need a reinstall key (and don't want the hassle, already tried).
Thanks, I'll check that out! I'll take finicky over bricked, at this point it's just to see if I can get it to work for a couple months ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ