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(Ad Free) LATEST Ubuntu on a 2012 iMac! (CPU Swap!) (Patreon)

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Today we're swapping an i7 into a 2012 iMac, and installing the latest version of Ubuntu! How will it perform?

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🍎 Ubuntu 24.04: https://ubuntu.com/desktop 

🍎 Custom Nvidia driver PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/ubuntu/nvidiaexp 

🍎 Ubuntu Kernel Switcher: https://github.com/bkw777/mainline

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Jeff Geerling

Funny you mention this—I just installed Ubuntu on a 2011 MacBook Air, and it's slow, but fun!

Nathan Allworth

First thing on the list after a fresh OS install is to setup fastfetch and look at the pretty colors!

Bill Kavanagh

Could you recompile that ppa driver for the later kernal?

peter coen

I tried it on a iMac 2009, but it didn't work. Happily the latest Linux Mint (Cinnamon) Wilma works. I used the old hardware.

ctrl.alt.rees

Funnily enough I was poking around one of these that we've had sat unused in the office for years (well, a 21.5" 11,2) with a view to upgrading the CPU and GPU and sticking Linux on it, but the screen has gone a very weird shade of yellow. Apparently it's quite common with that specific model, unfortunately - and not repairable without swapping out the whole panel for a non-yellowed one.

Tom

The best retro gaming experiences involve ship of Theseusing the hardware then bending a vastly too modern OS to your will and then feeling satisfied with a job well done. And completely forgetting the gaming.