submitted 1 year ago by dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has anyone installed Gentoo on a Mac before? If so, what concerns are there related to things like Apple’s implementation of EFI?

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Please log what you do? Please?

I’ve got an older iMac intel and mulling what to use now that it is no longer getting updates

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Will do!

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