I’ve heard LOTS of people say -over the years- “Don’t do this, unless you are very tech savvy…Linux will be too problematic for you.” Which is always disappointing…b/c I like to think I’m reasonably intelligent. Although I learned how to FTP files back in early 2000’s. I used Windows 1994-2004, switched to Mac at that time, stayed with Mac, but occasionally had to bounce around between Mac and Windows, I’m not especially tech-smart. But, my experience is pretty limited with Linux, mostly to his, which I’ve rarely used. I have a friend who has Linux on his laptop…and it doesn’t seem difficult to use. ![]() ![]() I’d probably need to hire / pay someone to do this, as it think it would likely be beyond my ability. And budget constraints limit constantly buying new devices. I believe in reusing stuff as much as possible. So, I thought I’d see about getting a second opinion here. But apparently, according to the technician at the computer repair store yesterday…it’s just too old to be worth it…in his opinion. It says it’s running OS X El Capitan but I’m pretty sure the guy I bought it from told me he had upgraded it to High Sierra. ![]() grrrr I stopped by my small, local computer shop yesterday and they told me that they do install Linux for people… but they wouldn't even consider doing it on a machine this old! :( It's a mid-2011, 27”, 3.1 GHzm Intel i5, MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB. I LOVE this piece of hardware!! It's great! But generally, philosophically, politically, as dot.org, open-source kinda-girl… it really me off that there are no options for this awesome piece of equipment…b/c of Apple’s bogus proprietary OS stuff. If it's possible …or realistic… I'd like to convert or add a Linux OS to my beloved iMac desktop.
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