Installed Debian on 2010 Mac Pro

posted 2 months ago

I have an old Mac Pro that has been collecting dust for years. Today I bought an SSD and install Debian on the machine. It works flawlessly.

Further reading revealed that there is an active community around the classic mac pros and thanks to their modular nature they can be fully upgraded. People even upgrade the CPUs in this thing.

So if you like playing around with a PC like the old days, that is also Linux compatible, a Mac Pro 5,1 seems a good choice. AFAIK you can get it for cheap and a decent upgrade won’t break the bank.

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pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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2 months ago

I have most certainly had OS installs (from every vendor) that worked flawlessly for a while. Why are you pretending as if those don’t exist?

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