I’m confused. How did you save your parent’s Masters in Business Administration? /s
(Sorry. I can’t help but think that every time someone acronym’s Macbook Air.)
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I got a laugh at the end as I have also experienced that the hardest part about converting parents to Linux is them not knowing their passwords.
Oh the pain. You should’ve heard the accusations of someone else changing their passwords…somehow. Yet they’ll both bring up me bricking the fam computer dl linkin park from limewire…like 20+ years ago lol
That hardware still has plenty of power for basic use. It should be good for another 10 years running Linux.
leg
She’s starting off on the…right foot :) I still gotta finish her. Literally just haven’t done the right leg/foot armor
Where did you got wifi drivers? From the repo? Why didn't you used a flash drive to pass them w/o an adapter?
I enabled the free and non free repos and entered
sudo dnf in broadcom-wl
That got everything working. I used the Ethernet method cause I am a noob and was not aware of using a flash drive until just now lol. Guess I got something else to learn
Right? That was my first thought.
Sneakernet ftw
My 2015 MacBook Pro is still getting updates.
Without OCLP, the latest release of macOS that a 2015 MacBook Pro will run is Monterey (5 releases ago).
The final release of Monterey was July 2024. So no, it is not getting updates anymore. Worse, many programs require a newer release of macOS to run at all.
This is a perfect system to migrate to Linux. It will run faster, be more secure, and will have totally up-to-date software.
I dual boot Linux mint on it now but I should try oclp because I love getting iMessages on it for work.
OCLP?
I haven’t had to go that route yet because they’re still doing security updates for the last os that’s officially supported on it.
Really? I thought the last version for those was Monterrey and that that went EOL in 2024.
That reminds me; the other day a client walked up to the help desk I work at with a 2015 MBP still running El Capitan.
Have you had luck with oclp?
I’ve never even owned a Mac; I know about it because I’ve Hackintoshed a few times, so I’m familiar with OpenCore.