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Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] DJDarren 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's hope Asahi linux becomes usable enough as a daily driver before the M series laptops stop getting updates

[–] DJDarren 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s the route I’m expecting to take. It’s why I’m dipping my toes into Linux now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should put mint on my SSD/16GBRAM 2011 MBP…

Can you dual boot with OSX?

[–] DJDarren 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh my SSD was absolutely my optical drive before I replaced it hahahaha