2/12/2023 0 Comments Install linux on mac mini mid 2007The MacBook Air still works fine, if a bit slow, on macOS 10.13 but I felt like a bit of nerding! Installation We have a still perfectly usable Late-2010 MacBook Air (“MacBookAir3,2”, model number A1369), but with macOS 10.14 Mojave dropping support for Macs older than 2012 ( it’s possible to extremely-hackily install it on older machines but I’d rather not go down that route), I decided I’d try installing Linux on it. The only additional post-upgrade work I had to do was re-adding the Section "Device" bit to /usr/share/X11//nf as described below to get the brightness keys working again). ( Update December 2020: I successfully upgraded from Linux Mint 19.3 to Linux Mint 20 by following the official Linux Mint instructions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notably, no need to install pommed, and including the specific voodoo needed for the 2010 MacBook Air from Ask Ubuntu regarding PCI-E bus identifiers). ( Update May 2020: I’ve re-run through this whole process using Linux Mint 19.3 and have updated this blog post with new details.
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