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I got my dead internal display to work with an external display on mirrored mode, and I got it to reliably boot past Apple‘s incredibly finicky AMD graphics drivers.

I ordered a bottle of Jim Beam, and I’m going to bed. I’m fucking exhausted.

If anyone wants to offer further advice, go ahead, but any Apple bashing will be firmly ignored because I just don’t have it in me to take it

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[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 4 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

Please don't judge Linux as a whole because you have troubles installing it on hostile hardware. I'm a full Linux user, from my router to my phone and everything in between. But installing it on Apple hardware has always been terrible. Linux is not welcome there.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

No no no, you misunderstand

I would not have spent this fucking long and this much effort working on getting it installed on this machine if I didn’t think Linux was worth it.

But I also highly value Apple hardware, especially the older stuff

Edit: I have about 15 years experience with Debian based distributions, and have a little bit of experience with red hat based distro. But diving in with fedora at this level will be new for me. An adventure! And on especially bitchy hardware!

I’m going to drink a bottle of bourbon tonight, and figure this out tomorrow, lol

Edit 2: i’m watching Star Trek two wrath of Khan in 4K with my cat. I encouraged the rest of you to do the same. Happy memorial day weekend 😊

Niiiice! What do you plan on using it for?

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 3 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

I had to take breaks. Or I would have smashed things.

Realistically, though, it’s a 2012 iMac, so I’m working with USB 2.0 flash drives and SATA 3.0 HDDs. Shit is old and slow. Plus, because of repeated Radeon driver bugs, I got caught in so many repeated boot loops, I lost count of how many. So, so many boot loops.

Repeated grub and refit problems… Apple efi vs refit, etc, and manually editing the boot efi… Apple ago is so weird. It’s such a nightmare to navigate blind because you can’t edit it, nor even look at it, and it’s unpublished. It’s just trial and error.

[–] homes@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Obviously, I started with Linux mint, but that just didn’t work out for a lot of reasons that did not at all seem obvious.

I’ll get into this and any questions you may have tomorrow, after I rest because I am so goddamn exhausted