MacBook Pro, Core i5, 2.8 GHz (I5-4308U), model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13", MacBookPro11,1, RAM 8 GB, VRAM 1.5 GB, Storage 512 GB SSD
vlc, tor, brave, firefox… are apps that I cannot download. Neither can I use mac’s app store, because software is too old.
What would be the point of not nuking this OS X?
My iMac is gathering dust. It can’t run Debian due to proprietary video shit, so all I get is a black screen at boot. Tried fedora and my USB mouse doesn’t work at boot, I have to unplug and replug every single time. Who knows what kind of proprietary assholery they did to the USB stack
I should just sell it but I’m keeping it for “what if one day I need to open some iWork files?” - although i already proven a month ago that it would not correctly open iWork documents created with the latest version
You can’t use icloud for iwork files?
Wait, there’s a web viewer for iwork files? Does it allow to save as a PDF? But I guess it wouldn’t handle missing fonts
Oh hey! I think I know the solution to this issue because I just went through it last week with an old 2009 iMac I’ve got laying around. I don’t think it’s really a proprietary video issue. It’s a problem with the bootloader handing over the GPU to the OS. As far as I was aware, the AMD graphics card in my iMac has an open source driver.
Edit: I tried to type out how to do it but my client crashed and I’m not up for doing it again, here’s a link that will help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu