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So, I have an old mac mini, one of the flat ones. You know, it's shaped more flat than the new ones.

I want to put Linux Mint on there.

Or maybe Ubuntu

and then, I am going to buy a really cheap monitor on eBay.

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[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Great idea; these are nice little machines. I have one running as part of a Proxmox cluster. I recall that there was some rigamarole to get it installed because of the T2 security chip that comes in that vintage of Mac. I’ll check my notes and see if I can find how I handled that.