LATEST Ubuntu on a 2012 iMac! (CPU Swap!)

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[@ActionRetro]

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[@SimonZerafa]

New Electronics 🙂👍

[@humfelbert2079]

The white smoke produced when really old caps explode

[@nickthaskater]

New car

[@IAmPixelRice]

Day 2 Of Asking For A Fedora Video.

[@monikabixho7752]

Smell of burnt stuff (jk)

[@SockyNoob]

I love the constant roasting of Tim Cook every time you mention Apple claiming this machine is totally obsolete.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

It's well deserved, yes ^^

[@gemini62167]

Yes, and since Mr. Cook has proven himself to be quite the Microsoft educated businessman! Apple's long list of malfeasance since he came aboard as well as the sad lacking of any truly new and innovative anythings compared to Job's return to Apple, should have been enough to turn off many who still swear by Apple. Apple's machines have become mostly entertainment based ever since. From solely a business/profit motive that makes good sense, being that the vast percentage of users do mostly nothing other than stream content, books, play games (as limited as Apple machines can achieve). But from a computing stand point, Apple places so many limitations on what a user can do with them that unless you do not need anything more than the native apps, you will soon find out you've purchased an expensive mountain of frustrations. And yes, for the masses that may be just enough. My biggest complaint is how Apple has used the excuse of soldering down the components of its architecture to eliminate any upgrades to their machines unless you're willing to pay outrageously for them, and only at time of purchase. Apple states on their order page, that they must be done then for once out the door even Apple will not upgrade them later. There is no justification for the amounts they charge for those upgrades and there really was no reason to go with an architecture to eliminate their possibility other than to be able to use it as a convenient excuse and then gouge it's devoted followers who it seems are more than willing to go along with it. Pretty and elegant as the operating system is... I no longer feel it is worth the icky, dirty, prostituted feeling I get from handing over so much money for what is becoming less and less as the years pass. To only have two ports (four if you upgrade) on the new iMacs is hideous. This particular model 2012, has six, plus a card reader, and Ethernet. That and 1T HD, whereas the base models today come with a measly 256G, as if it's still the late 1990s.

[@LuisFCorreia]

censored thermal paste application is the best part of these videos

[@PunchysGameRoom]

It's actually SO amazing, lmao!

[@hardlyworgen71]

Nice way to deal with comments about him not applying the paste the way the commenter deems "correct". 🤔

[@haxidenti6001]

At least it's not swastic :D :D :D

[@SkolRedondo]

@@haxidenti6001 I thought about it

[@SlabBulkhead]

I laugh every time.

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

The way I managed to get this working was by: Installing Mint 22 (which from my experience is just more stable and compliant to shenanigans), Running the Nvidia legacy driver patch (a tool that lets you force-install the older Nvidia drivers on newer kernels), and configuring the power-management features of the proprietary driver (i.e. telling it to always be used and in constant maximum performance mode, as by default it assumes a power balanced mode more useful for laptops that tends to be unstable on these newer kernels). Other than an occasional weird behavior where a single line of pixels on the right side of the screen rolls a bit (you'll see what I mean when it happens to you), it's been very stable. Highly recommend.

[@andreasascherl2018]

I solved my Nvidia problems with manually installing Nvidia driver version 470 in Linux. The automatic detection did not offer a proprietary driver, as version 390 is not compatible with Mint 22. I am using Mint 22 on my 2010 iMac 27", which has a patched GTX 780M, as my main machine. It also has dual boot with Sonoma using OpenCore. I don't have Steam installed, but Davinci Resolve works and that also requires the proprietary driver in Linux.

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

@@andreasascherl2018 Always fun to tinker with this old stuff :)

[@biotrekker]

After trying, and failing to install Open Core and DosDude Catalina on a 2008 iMAC w/Intel Core Duo E8135@ 2.66GHz, 4Gb RAM and a Crucial SSD (actually DosDude's Catalina Patcher did install, but it refused to launch any internet browser), I installed Linux Mint 22 via DVD, after several failed USB attempts. It now runs very smoothly, although start up is a bit slow. Apple makes things ... "interesting".

[@pawtail]

Not sure if this is relevant but Chrome has issues under the Catalina patcher. Have you tried Firefox?

[@Gamerbay2017]

Don't forget Sodium, Lithium, Optifine and other performance increasing mods for Minecraft! You can get a much more playable experience with it.

[@Pleyer7575lol]

I don't want sodium or lithium in my laptop

[@JustMiniBanana]

@@Pleyer7575lol you might not want to hear this but check your battery.

[@Dr_McKay]

@@Pleyer7575lolI produce my own sodium chloride when gaming

[@Pleyer7575lol]

@@JustMiniBanana *opens up laptop* AAH

[@ZipplyZane]

Was Minecraft running at full speed anyway without the proprietary drivers? I would have expected it to run fine on that GPU with default settings, unless the resolution was set too high. I still think he ought to drop down to 22.04 which still has support, and apparently has the driver's and kernel he needed. Trying to retrofit everything in 24.04 seems like it would be prone to breakage.

[@6StringPassion.]

Apple's highly-skilled accountants made damn sure they put a stop to this kind of product longevity a few years ago.

[@lassikinnunen]

They do it by blocking macos updates.. You need hacks to update the os's so you can run latest xcode and you have to have the latest to make builds for appstore. Quite annoying.

[@6StringPassion.]

@@lassikinnunen Yep. But Apple Silicon changed everything.

[@YannBOYERDev]

@@6StringPassion. Apple silicon sucks, everything is soldered on, and RAM/SSD prices are insane, 200€ price increase to go from 8GB to 16GB of RAM or 256GB to 512GB of storage... While my main PC that I have smokes the Apple M3 with performance and has 64GB of RAM and 1TB + 2TB + 2TB SSD for less than 1000€ LOL, including buying the monitor(it's a mini PC with a Ryzen 7 7840HS 8C/16T 5.1GHz), I also have a M1 Mac but I don't use it anymore, Apple is so greedy... that hasn't changed with Apple Silicon... Apple know they can charge a lot for less to give and people will still buy iphone and mac so why changing that ? The worst is that their M CPUs are fast but they waste everything on other things, like the GPU and their graphics API are dogshit and lacks a lot of features(geometry shaders etc.) that we have on the PC world with Vulkan... and I love macOS but yeah everything else sucks.

[@tennickjestzajety69]

Microsoft mimics it with SSE4 or TPM 2.0 requirements in Windows 11... You can't use Ryzen 1 gen or Intel 6/7 gen even they are still powerful enough... In one year these PCs will be obsolete for no reason, when W10 reaches EOL...

[@matthewjbauer1990]

@@tennickjestzajety69 Well... Look at it this way: Intel 6 gen retailed 9 years ago this month and Intel 7th retailed 7 years ago. Those processors are old. Ryzen 1 at 7 years old (but newer than 7th gen Intel) is old. Even my Ryzen 2600 system, at 6 years old is old. But old doesn't mean obsolete because you have Linux as long as you don't have apps/programs that mandate the use of Windows.

[@ewasteredux]

I have an old 27" iMac and one of the things that is good about this unit is that it uses MXM video cards. Even though most after-market cards are not immediately visible at POST, once the alternate OS is booted, they show up on screen fine. You might try this scenario if gaming is your goal and want to use older Mac hardware to do it.

[@pawtail]

2009-2011 unibody models have NOTORIOUSLY awful cooling though, so I would stay away from anything more intensive than Minecraft on them. A Mac Pro 5,1 would fare considerably better here, I own both and the stock Pro blows the iMac 27 out of the water.

[@XMagicFingersX]

I worked in a computer refurbishing place for a while and worked on a lot of these. This model is notorious for killing itself if you leave it on idle for a while make sure you set the fan profile to 40% or more on idle

[@cameronbosch1213]

Just installed EndeavourOS (Arch based Linux distro) on a ThinkPad T25 (25th Anniversary ThinkPad) that I got. Sadly, the batteries are pretty degraded, but I upgraded the RAM to 32 GB and the SSD to 4 TB (I didn't have an 8 TB SSD hanging around at the time and it's a PITA to upgrade the SSD inside its cage for this model). Sadly for some people, despite having a TPM 2.0 chip (because it was a ThinkPad) it still can't "officially" run Windows 11 because the CPU is a 7th gen Intel CPU, but given I don't use Windows anymore, that's fine by me! More Linux for me, especially given these things were hard to find! I had to pick it up from a person whose partner worked for IBM/Lenovo's ThinkPad division and went to the Japan R&D lab that they were made back in the day and it took YEARS to find it!

[@ObliterationOfMankind]

If necessary, give Tiny11 a try to slap win11 on that thang

[@sirbodsworthrugglesbyiii964]

Huge recommendation for using Rufus to set up Windows 11. Removes the TPM requirement, and lets you change a few of the default settings (e.g. allowing you to use a local account).

[@pawtail]

Another Thinkpad rightfully converted to Linux :)

[@theGamer93]

I have a 27" iMac with a Core i7 2700, which originally came from a recording studio. I used it in my office for a long time, then the graphics card failed (a known issue). In the meantime, I've installed an Nvidia Quadro, a modern Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card (from a 2014 MacBook), and two SSDs. With Open Core, I can boot into both Windows 11 and macOS Sonoma. However, I mostly just use it with Windows 11 now. It’s currently at my girlfriend's parents' place, in her old childhood bedroom, where we use it as a TV (27" is 27"^^). The old iMacs are still quite usable for everyday tasks, and you can even play some games on them - Fortnite even runs on it.

[@KevDoy]

Thanks!

[@spazzypengin]

I used Mint Xfce to breathe new life into my sister's late 2012 iMac. It's a dedicated streaming machine and does it perfectly well.

[@f0gman75]

I picked up one of these two years ago at a school auction for $140. Recently I attached an external USB SSD and installed OpenCore Legacy Patcher, then Monterey on it. It's now an excellent streaming machine especially because I was able to use an old Thunderbolt-DisplayPort cable for a second monitor.

[@ffwast]

I tried out the same on a 2012 macbook my buddy was going to scrap. It's still scrap but now it runs mint.

[@spazzypengin]

@@ffwast Sounds like when I put PPC Fedora on a 5 year old iBook G4 years and years ago. It was still useless and slow, but it was useless and slow with Linux.

[@ffwast]

@@spazzypengin Oh it does light stuff like web browsing fine,it's just been run over.

[@justinnamilee]

I worked for the Apple affiliate Jump+ here in Canada in the repair department and these were the bane of my existence. They did look good tho.

[@zigenstern]

helll yeah, love seeing your videos uploaded withing seconds of looking for them, highlight of my morning

[@nhand42]

Thank you for crediting that background music. I've added it to my driving playlist. Linux on older Mac hardware has always been amazing. One of the early Linux/Mac distros called itself an Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove. So true.

[@GeekIWG]

As far as the Nvidia GPU goes, keep in mind Ubuntu defaults to Wayland instead of X11 these days, and Nvidia hasn't played well with Wayland until fairly recently with it's latest drivers. You may want to try with X11 instead.

[@giusdb]

If you are using wayland, the old nvidia drivers have no support for acceleration. Gnome had partial support for the old nvidia drivers protocol for a while. With the old nvidia drivers you are forced to use X, or nouveau (but if it goes well, with manual reclocking).

[@ABrag4]

You should try Debian 12, it has Nvidia legacy driver 340 and 390.

[@DannyWalkerinBelfast]

I have a 2010 iMac (iMac11,2) that happily runs the most recent version of Ubuntu. I actually use the kubuntu variation and it runs very well. Perfectly acceptable for browsing, streaming and whatever else I feel like doing on it. Even some older games work fine on it.

[@kdha200501]

Inspirational as always! Thank you for making the point that "vintage mac" machines are still relevant. I'm making an effort to make Fedora 40 (KDE Plasma) work on a 10+ year old MBP, and thanks to you I don't feel alone!

[@Da40kOrks]

The 3770 is shockingly usable in 2024. I have one in my daughter's gaming pc paired with an RX580 and it handles everything we throw at it.

[@theprofessor8517]

Quite a lot of success for an action retro video - that’s was funny.

[@devnull73]

As Linus once said, "FUCK YOU NVIDIA!!!"

[@Wy4tt240fans]

Linus referred to amd

[@tennickjestzajety69]

worst GPU manufacturer in terms of driver support, even mid-2000s ATi was better than todays Nvidia...

[@Wy4tt240fans]

@@tennickjestzajety69 but I’m fan of amd in my own opinion

[@phoneywheeze]

since he said that, nvidia has became the most valuable company in the world..... meanwhile a few years ago Linus had to leave Linux foundation for a while because of his behaviour

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

I can't help but explode in laughter each time I see somebody blurring a thermal paste application. Looks like applying thermal paste is like welding two metal parts together : you never want anybody to comment on it on the Internet ! 😂😂😂

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

You know I'll stay subbed forever, Sean! Great video!

[@rustisamust9079]

I always find these 'obsolete' gear videos fascinating, just like watch or guitar restorations. Makes me sometimes wish I was a gamer, developer or power tech user!

[@aRandomPersonOfTheInternet]

I wasn’t prepared for that Dave Plummer jumpscare at the end lol Good to know he likes watching Action Retro as well :)

[@_..-.._..-.._]

I recently bought an early 2013 MacBook Pro for $180 to run my home built cnc machine, I run 3d modeling software on it and adobe creative suite and anything else I need. All it needed was the anti-glare to be polished the rest of the way off. It’s actually become my go-to computer. Stock battery only goes about 1.5 hours, but it almost never leaves my cnc drawer.

[@everlasts]

my heart almost stop for a second at 2:17

[@hackthis02]

Always love your NSFW thermal compound applies.

[@sbb907]

That's a unique way to say it

[@thomas-NK]

Just got a 21.5 iMac mid 2011 for less than 30$😊 Had just a defective hdd, so a cheap(free) SSD and 16Gb Ram and newest Linux Mint got me the Perfect workshop computer😊👌🏻

[@JayBmusic]

I was able to install openSuse Tumbleweed with nVidia 470 on my 2012 MacBook Pro with GT650M. Performance wasn't that great with DXVK so I stuck with Windows 11 in the end which worked perfectly fine even with an outdated graphics driver.

[@aviumcaravan]

fun fact: there's currently a work-in-progress revamp of the nouveau driver on the Mesa end, which apparently already has notably good performance

[@AZisk]

gotta admit, came here for the imac, stayed for the sponsored slot.

[@ActionRetro]

😂

[@kevinf92]

The pleasing odor is half the point!

[@thingsmymacdoes]

@@ActionRetro your scentbird CEO is also known for claiming hitler wasn't really such a bad guy after all. And some other weird stuff about aliens. Thats some stench that doesnt easily wash off.

[@twilliamc3]

Ah ArtiClean, a true man of taste I see. I feel like you can gauge how long someone has been working on computers based on what they use to clean thermal paste with.

[@2mikedean]

i am surprised no one has made magnet achieve for the imac. so you can remove the glass anytime when you want. be strong enough to hold it in place.

[@gemini62167]

You know... that may not be so very difficult for anyone to do. Considering that you can purchase very smal yet very powerful magnets online anywhere. I couldn't tell you if it would be safe considering how magnets can reek havoc with storage devices and who knows what else. Computers are not my area of knoweldge by far. But it really does sound like a very good idea.

[@Imbagrimba]

To solve your Steam problems either use Proton 7, or Patch your current Proton Versions with the older Dxvk 1.10.3 and vkd3d 2.6 Versions. That‘s because old nvidia drivers (you can go up to 470 btw) do not support newer Vulkan Version required by later dxvk/vkd3d Versions. Works with all Proton Versions.

[@tmu3tube]

Great video, good for people to see that the Ubuntu 24.04 is not the correct choice for this machine.

[@steveg5122]

This is one of the issues with pre Radeon macs, the nvidia video support craps out after a bit. Have you tried to use Open Indiana on anything lately?

[@TexasAgg2003]

24.04 is not a great distro as of now... I have a few boxes for games and ai and general desktop... 24.04 has been more trouble than it is worth, I rolled back the gaming and ai box to 22.04 and let the newer distro bake a little bit more.

[@TheBigBazzy]

I also found 24.04 buggy for my nextcloud server I just built. So I reinstalled 22.04 and it's been very stable. The only issues I've had is with nextcloud itself but the OS has been great.

[@fixups6536]

As a rule of thumb, I wait at least 6 months after the release before trying a new Linux distro (especially Ubuntu LTS), and 9 to 10 months before installing a new macOS version. I have been bitten over and over again by new Ubuntu and macOS versions, so no thanks. Well... Time to install Sonoma, I guess... For a new Windows version, if I used it at all, I would wait one year or two.

[@mikeyp4690]

2012? That's basically new! It's also basically the same specs as my ThinkPad T430, which I love.

[@pigeondriver8992]

EXCUSE ME? YOU CAN SWAP THE CPU ON THESE? Man, grandma gonna get some upgrades, ssd is the priority, but you know, 16gb and i7 could be of some use...

[@marxisttheoryandlore]

If you're brave enough you can swap the CPU on anything

[@Steve_Smith_Gaming]

Please be very careful with the screen, they seem easy to crack

[@PhilippeVerdy]

​​@@marxisttheoryandlorenot really. You can swap it provide it has the correct physical socket, and the correct chipset notably the North bridge on the motherboard to correctly drive the PCI lanes and memory buses and with the correct fréquence ranges. In addition the bios must support that processor in it's allowed configurations, to propermy set voltages, frequences, and and layoute of ram banks and channel modes. If your motherboard was based on Intel, you don't have lot of choices as Intel changes the socket type very often, so upgrades are suite limited to a small family.

[@pawtail]

Just be dosdude1 and swap soldered CPUs

[@pigeondriver8992]

@@pawtail real

[@RarefiedError]

Dude, seriously thanks for showing me those web browser settings, I was getting frustrated with mine until this video

[@corpclarke]

I have been trying to run this exact machine (without the upgrade) with Lubuntu. Even with that distro it is still a bit too slow. Thank you for the upgrade suggestion. I will give it a go.

[@corpclarke]

Ergh I have the 2015 model and the CPU is soldered in place. Any recommendation are welcome.

[@petermczip9011]

I'm watching this on a 2011 iMac 12,2 running Sonoma.

[@EdwinNoorlander]

Pro tip, try btop I.s.o. htop. And next to hyfetch try cpufech.

[@steviecue8567]

thanks for making this HELPFUL video!

[@zevilaga]

I got a Mac Mini from a friend about a year ago. I decided to try it with Linux Mint, and it is smoooth. Even able to play 720p@60 youtube videos, so it became my garage PC. My only complaint is that the original Wireless Keyboard and mouse do not connect, since it's not their home OS. They are disovered, but connection doesn't work. Otherwise these old apple devies are pretty and fully functional Linux PCs for cheap.

[@ironhead2008]

We have one of the Nehelem based iMacs. Amazingly upgradable and damn usable if you throw 16 gigs of ram and a decent quad core (an i7-980). I actually kind of wish I'd thrown in a Xeon for the additional memory support. The main weakness is GPU support, but for the use it's getting the older HD-5000 series works perfectly well.

[@JosephHalder]

I both love and hate that you blur the thermal paste application as a bit. I want to see it!

[@mexicanhalloween]

love seeing those ancient ArtiClean bottles, my set is nearly 20 years old

[@neurobioboy]

Not a fan of Ubuntu, but I am sure it would be lovely with mint! Great video thanks!

[@_..-.._..-.._]

I have iMacs and powermacs in the basement of my graphics shop that former partners abandoned, a g3 iMac, several mint G5’s a 2004 white iMac, and many iMacs like this one in the video. But they’re all top-spec i7 machines that were maxed out.

[@josephherrera8587]

It's funny that you're posting this because I just got one of these off of Facebook marketplace as well, only 20 dollars!

[@jwoody8815]

Old machines arent alwayse usless even in more modern times. Recently rebuilt a friends Phenom II with some updated used components on the cheap he dosent do any serious gaming but he uses it for a media center and just general Office type and internet use. (Phenom II x6 w/overclock (4.1GHz), 32GB RAM and a 2x 1TB SSDs, a wireless card, Radeon RX560 and a newer case. Mostly parts I had lying about, Garage sale and Ebay purchases. Handles 4K video smoothly and anything else non gaming on it. Running Linux Lite 64-bit.

[@GeoStreber]

I got a modern Linux distro (AntiX 23.1) to run on a 2001 Pentium III Dell Laptop with only 384 MB of RAM. Had to install an IDE SSD to make the boot process bearable, but it's surprisingly workable. Kernel 5.10, and LibreOffice works just fine.

[@yamaddie]

would love you see you try and mess with the new NVK drivers and see if that works, most likely wont but would be a fun watch

[@SoftBlade7]

11:24 relatable, the 390 driver works however on ubuntu 22.04, only in the 6.2 kernel, so you have to install ubuntu 22.04.3, then upgrade it with 'sudo apt upgrade' but don't boot with the 6.5 kernel but the 6.2 kernel, then install the 390 driver and it will work

[@softwelveone]

I was raving about ubuntu 24.04 (I hadn't used it since '09 Karmic Koala) on my 2015 iMac but I looked closer at how Ubuntu packages there Sandbox Snaps and there's definitely some difference between Ubuntu Sandbox Snaps vs Flatpack Sandbox...

[@cryofwill1416]

This is a great computer for programming ❤❤

[@i1xb0]

im on an i7-3770 right now, and i have been for a long time now, it's worked fine for me, no adobe apps its a minor inconvenience, but i dont care works for what i do ram: 24gb ddr3 gpu: gtx 970 4gb gddr5

[@MadMathMike]

That zoom in on "unrelenting stench!" cracked me up. 😂

[@povilasstaniulis9484]

I would give Ubuntu 22.04 a shot on this hardware. Sometimes, latest isn't the best, especially on older systems.

[@nresnik]

I use the latest version of Linux Mint (EFI boot) on 2007 iMac 24, Core duo, in 2024. It works well.

[@gnarlin4964]

You could try simply installing Ubuntu 22.04 instead and installing the proprietary Nvidia driver with that.

[@miasma82]

Ubuntu. It just works - Todd Howard

[@woldemunster9244]

F*CK Nvidia! -Linus Torvalds

[@mattsword41]

"Ubuntu, it just works!" Minutes later.. After some hacking... " 😀

[@jeremiemorse8642]

Free I have a 27-in IMAX 16 GB of memory Aunt instead of putting Linux on it had a fusion drive so I basically just kind of kept it all together and used open core patcher and it now runs Sonoma and it runs very well

[@antorbug25]

My brother, you compiled the 390 driver for the 6.8 kernel. 14:00 Did you try compiling after booting from the older kernel?

[@ZipplyZane]

Definitely try installing a version of Ubuntu that naturally comes woth the right kernel and has the right deivers on their repository. It soinds like 22.04 is a better bet.

[@tschuuuls486]

Regarding the Nvidia drivers, you probably have to use Nvidia-DKMS. This builds the nvidia driver for your current kernel version. It's the default on Arch for example, because their kernels are usually way newer than the one Nvidia intended you to use.

[@tschuuuls486]

Okay and I looked into this for 3 Minutes, Action Retro is right, the DKMS package for the 390 driver seems to be unmaintained. Rip.

[@Jackpkmn]

Using Arch if you use the linux-lts kernel while running the archinstall script everything will work correctly as this uses the 6.6 kernel you were trying to use here and is still fully supported. Be careful when choosing your desktop environment as wayland does not work at all on cards older than the 900 series.

[@Jackpkmn]

Oh and also be careful while using the archinstall script itself, it gives you the option to use proprietary nvidia drivers but these will install the latest 560 drivers instead of the 390 you need for this old card. You need the 380xx-dkms modules off AUR. Or you can use a 3rd party tool like nvidia-all from frogging family. Make sure you manually install the linux-lts-headers package or nvidia-all will retrieve and use the regular linux-headers package and build against 6.10 which will fail silently.

[@jasonlafond325]

been dailying a late 2013 27” with a gtx 775 and 32gb ram… on macos 15.2 or fedora so i don’t wanna hear obsolete

[@olnnn]

You can get much better performance from nouveau (though still no vulkan support) on these cards if you use a tool to manually change the power state of the nvidia card as the foss driver is not able to do it automatically unlike the proprietary one - look up nouveau reclocking

[@tmofee]

I have an older pc which wouldn’t get w11 so I switched to Ubuntu and with an ssd and 16gb upgrade ram it’s like a new machine

[@dom1310df]

Try the new NVK Vulkan extension for Nouveau. Nouveau's lack of Vulkan is going to prevent lots of games running through Proton. Might not be in the Ubuntu repos yet.

[@s1oplus_wt]

8:40 that is just every modern distro ever, not just ubuntu

[@williamlafrance2514]

Hi mate, regarding the issue with the Nvidia Drivers, it is caused by the weird Apple EFI implementation. For it to work correctly, the system need to be installed in pure BIOS mode, wich needs a little bit more thinkering. on the other side, Opencore Legacy could help by giving the computer up to date EFI variables. You might wanna try the BIOS Method first. Cheers from Quebec.

[@jenselstner5527]

You may give Manjaro (or something in the lines of arch) a try. There you can install old kernels out of the box. I just don't know abozt old nvidia drivers.

[@Ishtynileboo]

These are my kind of videos

[@asunavk69]

Arch linux does cointain an aur package that compiles and installs nvidia-390 against rather more recent kernels, mb running the linux-lts(6.6) package on it is gonna be great on it, who knows. This driver 💯 requires xorg tho, no cap.

[@onigvd77]

oh dear Sean you nearly borked the screen! you are supposed to take it off lying it down on the desk

[@thedreaming6446]

4:09 OMG you put so much you had to censor it! LOL!

[@_ugabuga_]

@ActionRetro i think you can make nvidia drivers work if you look at arch's aur as there are old nvidia drivers. In the packages there are usually patches and applying them on uncompressed stock nvidia drivers should make them work on newer kernels.

[@guilherme5094]

Really nice!

[@CristobalWatsonHernandez]

"That's the good thing about Ubuntu, things just work" 5 minutes later "Well, I couldn't get that to work" Hahahahahaha!

[@BavarianM]

They run great with open core on the latest Mac os

[@mrmc101]

try the 470 driver, I'm using a similar era 2013 MacBook pro with a 750m and it works great

[@HardbassTV.]

Nice channel, I like this type of videos

[@JimmyDoresHairDye]

This computer is perfectly useable for basic tasks. To put it in perspective, it would be like using a Power Macintosh 6400 in the year 2012.

[@Killericon]

omg using a dollar store ice cube tray for storing screws is incredibly smart

[@mazzter744]

How much was the new cpu? I love the way linux mint runs on this late 2015. Looking to upgrade the ram and the processor on it. I cant seem to find anything less than $100 on ebay

[@hoddelkind]

yeah, issue with nvidia here was, that you have to switch the greeter (gdm3 / lightdm) also to X11

[@burts06]

Great video! Sad the official GPU drivers couldn't work. i'm actually using the matching mouse to your keyboard on my laptop since the trackpad coicidentally broke :(

[@yusef3132]

One could, in a VM use SteamOS/Proxmox Gpu passtthrough. This way you setup once, and add to multiple devices. Even a G5 with Qemu, (or your dedicated Haiku box), etc. Less headache, not at the mercy of whatever idiosyncrasy a given OS has.

[@TheAces1979]

The fact that you don't have 1 million subscribers, according to the 1949 Geneva Convention, is, in fact, a war crime. You are my favorite kind of human. Never change. xoxo ♥

[@friedcatfood]

“Apple would like you to pretend that this is obsolete, but we’re fighting back by installing Linux! It will run perfectly” *5 seconds later, proves why Apple can’t update this anymore by having to change the CPU, something the average person doesn’t care to do*

[@MishraArtificer]

No, but the average person probably knows someone in their life who *can* change a CPU, if they ask nicely (i.e., slides some cash across a table).

[@DouglasWalrath]

oof installing the steam snap package was a mistake, it's notoriously broken to the point that valve recommends against using the snap package, despite that ubuntu keeps pushing it

[@jurvinx9939]

14:19 At the GRUB menu, straight up booting it, and by it, haha, let's just say, my imanc

[@TheeRadioDJ]

Each time I see someone do the iMac screen removal, I wonder why they don't place some tape along the bottom temporarily to keep it from falling while disconnecting the cable?🙄

[@JohnL2112]

I love how you blur out the thermal paste application to avoid criticism, but the X IS the right way to do it, and its apparent you did it that way. Also "audio works" ? lies. Linux doesn't support audio silly.

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

i have a 2011 imac it has a ati card so gaming isn't to bad, but it is also not the greatest computer, but the display is nice though