Colin "dosdude1" Mistr has a good list, here: My girlfriend's MacBook Pro is a 2009 model, just one year younger, and it can run High Sierra (10.13) which still supports the latest Firefox, Chrome, Skype, LibreOffice etc without any problem.īy the way: there are "hacks" to install newer versions of macOS onto older Macs which no longer support them. MacBook Pro and iMac models – from around this era can run El Cap (10.11) which is probably still somewhat useful. OS X Lion (10.7) is the latest this machine can run. Rebooting into Mac OS X and then warm-booting into Xubuntu fixed this.įor this and the webcam issue below, I really strongly recommend keeping a bootable Mac OS X partition available and dual-booting between both Mac OS X and Linux. Secondly, Xubuntu sometimes could not bring the wifi connection up.(Fn+F6 twice worked on Xubuntu 18/19, but not on 20.04.) I found a workaround: This is a serious snag because a MacBook has no NumLock key, nor a NumLock indicator to tell you, and thus no easy way to turn it off.
Xubuntu (18.10, later upgraded to 19.04) had two peculiar and annoying errors. (I just wish Xfce had the GNOME 2/Maté facility to lock controls and panels into place.) This is intentional.Īs the machine is maxed out with 4GB of RAM, and only has a fairly feeble Intel HD 3100 GPU, I went for Xfce as a lightweight desktop that's very configurable and doesn't need hardware OpenGL. Partly for my own memory, partly in case anyone else hits them, here are the work-arounds I needed.īTW, I have left the links visible and in the text so you can see where you're going. I hit quite a few glitches along the way.
I just finished doing up an old white MacBook from 2008 (note: not MacBook Pro) for Jana's best friend, back in Brno.
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