The Best Budget Mac for Linux?

Apple declared this iMac obsolete about half a decade ago, but I think it has plenty of life left in it. Let's max it out, and install a cutting edge Linux distro - KDE NEON!

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#Linux #Apple #iMac

[JeffGeerling]

Showing the new thermal paste takes a bit of bravery!

[Benzona]

Older Macs have an incredible shelf life. I still use a PowerMac as a file server and an 08 Mac Mini as a secondary machine to this day.

[hugotronics]

I bought this iMac for 50$ because the guy thought it was just a screen 😂
I’m now using it everyday running Monterey, it’s still powerful!

[philtkaswahl]

The default theme of that distro also fits really well with the overall aesthetics.

[TommyAgramonSeth]

"2019 was half a decade ago" stop 😭

[joe-skeen]

Last week I found a bunch of iMacs on Facebook Marketplace from 2009-2013 for $20-$40 a piece. Perfect condition. I bought a few, put a lightweight Linux distribution on them, and voila! Beautiful computer lab for my kids.

[LordManhattan]

"2019, half a decade ago", you really just wanted to make us all feel really old, didn't you 😂

[VincentBrabandt]

Note on the Nouveau driver: the reason it's so slow is because the GPU is set to run at the minimum clock speed, there's actually a script you could run to enable the highest clock speed (though it's still like ~60% performance of the proprietary drivers)

Another thing though, I'm not sure if the latest Ubuntu 24.04 comes with the Nvidia drivers for 600-series GPUs anymore (I have a MacBook with 750m)

[rickkarrer]

As soon as you got that board out, I was thinking "re-paste he CPU! while you're at it!"

[charliesretrocomputing]

I'm gonna install Sonoma on a 2010 iMac and daily-drive it for a month. That's "Seananigans" right there!

[zetho.]

I have Linux Mint installed with KDE Plasma desktop, and I can agree that KDE is beautiful

[steveg]

Fedora 40 has a pretty vanilla KDE 6.0 install, and has kernel 6.8.9 as of 5/18/24. It is a stable cutting edge distro as well.

[danilaros]

I have this iMac model. I just put 16GB of ram and a ssd, install Fedora and is super stable and fast. Is been my computer since 2013 and I find no need to update. Linux is amazing🙂

[CatBacon-qcot]

More heavy metal montages in the future, please, thanks.

Great video, I live for this stuff. I've, just today, installed Fedora 40 KDE Plasma 6, XFCE, GNOME, and Debian 12 KDE Plasma, XFCE, GNOME, and Cinnamon, on my 2015 MacBook Air, everything runs beautifully. I ditched MacOS a long time ago on all of my Apple hardware, even my M1 Air, though I had to keep Sonoma on it in order to run Asahi Fedora.

Keep up the amazing work, you're awesome, dude.

[pcs]

I have tons of Apple and Windows machines that are “obsolete” running on the current operating systems through various work arounds and they perform flawlessly

[CRYPTiCEXiLE]

KDE stands for Kool Desktop Env. the K-Desktop was the OG KDE before it became Plasma.

[The_Last_Ninja]

I have done exactly the same with my Late 2012 IMac 27inch. Maxed it out with RAM and installed Linux Mint on it. Now it’s not ‘obselete’ and it’s also pretty snappy to boot! Up yours Apple….

[Gravarty]

Calling 2012 iMacs “vintage” is so weird to me while I'm still trying to keep my iMac Late 2009 27” alive with hardware upgrades, OCLP and copium, thanks xD

[orionfl]

Just saying, a wee bit of a home brew mad sciencey type mod using metal tape and magnetic strips instead of adhesive makes those things WAY more serviceable. The only down side is that your screen will stick out a few millimeters but its not that noticeable. ;)

[BeesonsCars]

I have had one of these set up for my grandma in her office for the past 6 years or so. With an external USB 3.0 SSD it's still quite quick on Catalina. Works absolutely fine for web browsing currently including content consumption, however I'm sure this will change as Catalina is quite old now.