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I still use a 2011 MacBook Pro. It’s running Linux Mint now and hasn’t been my primary laptop for a couple of years now, but it’s still a solid machine. In fact, as is the norm with Apple stuff, it lost OS support long before it stopped being a viable laptop.
Fortunately, Opencore Legacy Patcher exists…
Let's hope Asahi linux becomes usable enough as a daily driver before the M series laptops stop getting updates
Yeah, that’s the route I’m expecting to take. It’s why I’m dipping my toes into Linux now.
I should put mint on my SSD/16GBRAM 2011 MBP…
Can you dual boot with OSX?
That’s the same spec as mine, though I also replaced the DVD drive with a second SSD.
And yeah, in theory you dual boot, but in practice I managed to bugger mine up, so it’s 100% Mint.
Oh my SSD was absolutely my optical drive before I replaced it hahahaha