Install Mint on 2010 Mac mini running OCLP? (lemmy.ca)

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Hi, I'm quite new to Linux. I installed Mint Cinnamon recently on a Windows laptop. Impressed.

Question: I have a semi-retired 2010 Mac mini server (two HDDs in it) that is running OCLP and MacOS Monterey. It runs, but it crawls without an SSD. I use it for music playback and occasional web browsing (which is painful). I am wondering if Linux would run better, but would prefer to keep a dual boot with MacOS.

How doable is this? Any opinions on what version of Linux to install?

Specs: 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 8GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM Dual 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard disk

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[-] SiriusCybernetics@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Ah thanks. So I should research whether LMDE is less resource intensive than the other versions of Mint. Or just go for it.

[-] ChrisG@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Don't do this. Stick with Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Mint. They're fan boi'ing you into disaster

[-] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I have installed LMDE in a 2013 iMac. This distro rocks. I am expecting it to run just as smoothly on your iMac, even if a bit older. Whatever you decide to do, install an SSD on it and then… enjoy!

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