These are the "lightest" versions Mint offers, and have the best chances of working with older/less powerful hardware. Try creating & booting a live Mint (USB or DVD)- either the XFCE or MATE versions. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of experience with Mac architecture, or how it may be configured vs. Mint does use a different display manager than Ubuntu, however.
The Mint 17 series is based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. Should Mint run on my machine? If not, do you have any suggestions about what might? Any advice/clarification would be greatly appreciated.Īll flavors of Mint 18 are based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release. I think I have read elsewhere that EFI is what Macs use to boot-that BIOS is not an option.
I understand that my Intel Core Duo processors require me to install 32-bit not 64-bit software. But states that 32-bit Mint can only boot with BIOS not EFI.
I've heard that Mint is a good distro for Mac users. (Before that I'd heard that my machine should be fine for a lightweight distro like Xubuntu-not sure what to make of that.) In the course of troubleshooting I've been told that Xubuntu doesn't officially support my machine. I tried installing Xubuntu 16.04, but that's not working out too well-every time it goes to sleep the screen goes to black and won't light up again on waking.
I'm starting to have software compatibility issues and would like to extend the machine's life by installing Linux-on a partition, to start with perhaps later I'll get rid of OS X.
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