Ubuntu 24.04 on an EXTREMELY Minimal Mac
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I have an old 2009 Mac Mini that just so happens to have the EXACT minimum system requirements for the latest version of Ubuntu just released. But how well will it really work?
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I got a loaded 2012 mac mini I am wanting to put 24.04
This chair legit looks awesome, especially to play handheld games with like you showed with that Sega Game Gear, instead of having to lay in bed to avoid neck and arm fatigue.
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Nice chair, I wonder what the load-bearing capacity is? I'm on my 3rd new chair in 2 years. Hoping the current one lasts long enough for my diet pill to bring things down.
Please teach me how you time travel
Someone at Canonical must still be rocking that machine for their workstation. They will give it up kicking and screaming 😂
One must wonder what kind of stickers or novelty items are sitting on top of it after all these years. Probably has its own badge at this point.
Oh you already know ‘ 😂
I have a Mac Pro 4,1 that I flashed to a 5,1 so I could use newer” (for that tower ) CPU , and ram , plus more programs to enable amd access , I have a rx480 in it and it would blow your mind can play gta 5 60 frames , gta 4 runs solid , destiny runs at 160 fps , some games eh some aren’t bad , I got it very cheap , want to put a rx580 or maybe something better by amd that’s compatible with it ! It handles shit like a beast nothing like the Mac mini 😂😂
I still use Core2Quad machins as bedroom HTPC, because i custom built a 0db cooling solution for the CPU and graphics card (Radeon 7750 Low Profile) They are CNC milled parts with tons of heatpipes in a modified Silverstone Grandia case. The performance is still good enough for 1080p video playback and some bedsurfing. It was our living room HTPC before we moved into our ugly brick bunker, where we decided to get a 4K projector.
Our living room HTPC is a new i3 12100F and an RTX 3060Ti (for decoding 4K high refresh rate and upscaling), which is not 0db but close to it. The graphics card is hooked up to three 360mm external radiators behind the media shelf.
@@hyperturbotechnomike Our living room HTPC is still a HP dc7900 SFF with a Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz BSEL modded, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD + 3TB HDD, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 18.04
That Mac Mini may be old enough to drive but it'd not be very safe. It's got terrible iSight.
lmao
Ha ha. (ok but that was funny)
Don't worry it's so small, very unlikely you'll have any FaceTime!
I like the mac mini form factor. They are nice and stackable.
how many do you have lol
@@lunadelinte I had 10 older Intel Mac minis at one point, got them all from an eBay seller looking to get rid of them cheaply (about $300 for all combined).
I used them for awhile as a Linux kubernetes cluster, then ended up giving them to friends & family because the cloud exists.
They stack up really nice in the trash
I'm running 24.04 on an old iMac from 2007. Changed the HDD to an SSD (that was a fun exercise). Runs smooth as butter for daily use.
Not wanting to bother with tearing that beast apart, I've been running Linux Mint off a USB SSD. But there's definitely a performance penalty.
@@impossiblescissorsthey're not talking about USB here, but swapping the HDD to an SSD.
@@impossiblescissors I put Mint Xfce on my sister's 2013 iMac so it could be a dedicated streaming machine. So far so good!
@@enderteck3273I think you misread his comment. He knows that, and was just explaining that _he_ didn’t want to take his apart to swap an SSD in so he runs it from external storage.
@@archgirl Lol didn't get the "not wanting to tear the beast apart" part
An interesting PC without Haiku? Who are you and what did you do to Sean?!
Was just going to say that it looks like a perfect machine to run Haiku on.
im more worried about what happened to whiteboard guy
Am I the only one who loves the idea of Haiku more than Haiku itself? You know, it's really cool that they made a completely novel OS that's not related to any other major OSes and it's actually functional, and I'm all for reviving 90s UI conventions for impractical, aesthetic reasons, but... it's a very dated design for a very dated workflow. It'd be cooler if you could swap out that default shell for something more modern. I absolutely love how lightweight it is. I mean, that's really cool. I hope people make alternate desktop environments for it someday.
@@newq Most people prefer that "dated" design over the newer ones. The older TH-cam designs were a lot less crowded than the new one. On smaller displays (like 768p) you can only fit 8 video thumbnails at a time but that same screen 10 years ago could fit like 20 or something
I installed Proxmox as the base OS and installed Haiku as a VM.
I would not use the snap version of Steam. Valve said to use the official deb or even the flatpak, as there are reports of catastrophic bugs from the snap version.
Oh snap!
snaps are trash
Extremely common Snap L
Surprising, how a 2024 operating system can be ran on an old minimal 2009 mac mini, especially with the GNOME shell.
that's because with enough RAM, and a basic SSD GNOME is not as heavy as people think it is, nor is Wayland compositor, but yes it's more heavy than the older X11 compositor just not by a ton. I have Manjaro GNOME running on a couple older ASUS dual core I3 laptops for family members just fine.
@@CommodoreFan64 KDE too has made a huge amount optimization over the years, so much so that it's usually preferable now to traditionally light DEs like XFCE or MATE when it comes to RAM usage.
@@seshpenguin We are talking about GNOME here not KDE, but thanks for the input. 🙄
@@seshpenguinbut not in supporting old hardware :D
kde is bad, gnome is good
These games were running through XWayland which has synchronization issues on NVIDIA causing flickering.
If you add the nvidia-legacy PPA, you should be able to install the nvidia-340 drivers for your GPU. Officially, nVidia driopped support for the 9600 a while ago, but the community maintains patches for the kernel module to let it work with newer kernel versions.
That may also resolve your framerate issues with sauerbraten.
I half expected to see Wolfenstein.
on ubuntu well you can run it on ubuntu but that wouldn't even come close to stressing the old mac so no Wolfenstein for you he's pushing it harder then that for giggles
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueyeah he’s pushing it 😂
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueyou think windows 7 takes more from cpu than Ubuntu ?
@DiligentUIM in what reality on what drug combo did you use to come up with that?
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue lmfao the question ?
Gotta love the x86-64 architecture.
An architecture only its creators could love 😌
Surley no. Once you got apple silicon/ARM you never go back. i run a mac mini m1 low spec and this thing flies for everyday usage incl. no noise. I even installed vmware fusion + ubuntu 24.04.
@@yorkan213swd6 I think they mean for compatibility + upgradability
Again Thanks AMD! Imagine Intel would have forced Itanium on us just next year!
Picked one of these up back in ‘09 for use with the living room TV as a DVD player, retro game emulation station, and hub to store and play digital media. With a 1080p screen, it was PERFECT. I still have it setup with Snow Leopard, all my ROMs, and a front end launcher to make for a seamless “console” experience. It’s easy to forget how fast Snow Leopard boots (especially on an SSD), and thinking about digging out one of my old CRTs and fashioning a retro arcade cabinet with this very machine. Hard to believe this kind of machine is already so retro! Great coverage, as always!
running an os that old is really asking for trouble. it's not been maintained in ages and is a security vulnerability
@@teklife totally-the machine NEVER goes online and has ZERO personal info on it. Emulators, ROMs, and front end-that’s it.
The reason it took so long to boot the live image is because you're limited to USB 2.0 speeds, as USB 3 didn't come out until 2011
Remember when we had to wait while we booted off CD (accompanied by the requisite drive noises, of course)? Good times…
Great Video. I've historically struggled with Linux (as I'm a total novice). But after seeing your video, I gave it a go with my 2011 Mac Mini and it worked perfectly! Thanks Sean! Love your vids... Keep up the great work.
3:33 "Fiiiine Corinthian Leaaaather!"
Love that design. I've got a 2006 Mini. Served me well for quite some time.
There's something really charming about these old Mac Minis I swear. If Ubuntu is too much for it, Xubuntu is probably still perfectly fine on it.
I was kind of surprised to see a dual core as a minimum requirement. Hopefully xubuntu would support the slightly older single cores still.
I always put really lightweight distros on these old Macs, like Artix. A lightweight distro with a desktop manager like KDE makes these little things seem like modern lower end computers. I use a 2014 Mac Mini as an SMB server, but it certainly can do more than that!
I'm running Zorin 17.1 on the very next model of Mac Mini (4,1) and it runs silky smooth, almost like it was made for the computer. It's amazing how a brand new operating system can breathe life into an old system.
I have a 2010 Mac Mini I upgraded to the hilt - 240GB SSD, 8GB RAM, and it's got a decent Core 2 Duo onboard with nVidia 320M graphics. It's not a bad little machine at all and the unibody form factor with a DVD drive is really neat.
I wish they made M series Macs with blu-ray drives, that would be cool! There's plenty of space in there for one these days...
I also have a Macmini 2010 that was gifted to me by an univerity teacher. He Upgraded the RAM to 8GB and upgraded the HDD to a 500 GB Crucial SSD.
Windows 10 runs quite good on it, I used it as my main PC for two+ years.
By the way that builtin DVD drive it's just a CD ROM drive used just to install MacOSX, if you wanted a real DVD drive, you had to buy the Magic Drive (classic Apple being greedy)
I just got gifted one of these, I'll definitely try this out!
I liked this form of the Mac Mini best, had the first gen PPC one and loved it.
The Firefox CPU usage on TH-cam can be fixed by installing h264ify.
The nVidia GPU can decode H.264 video, but not VP9 or AV1.
So with some tweaks to Firefox you can force it to only accept h.264 videos and render them using the GPU, which will help a lot on a machine that old
i just installed Ubuntu 24 on my laptop, and damn it’s beautiful
Great, I like those older Machines so much too ❤
What a coincidence! my Dad just ordered a Late 2006 Mac Mini! I plan to run 10.4 on it.
You can upgrade the CPU on those.
@@timfireblade Yeah! I heard! I've been thinking about it.
Fitted a T7200 to mine.
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I’ve just installed Debian and xfce on mine, works fantastic.
From Mac OS to Linux, what an awesome upgrade. Almost makes a Mac worth it.
1:41 Ah, yes, back when putting enough ports on a Mac was acceptable! 😂
Great video, that was my very first Mac. It was touted as Apple's first sub $500 computer, I believed i paid $499 for it the year it released, growing up with Tandy's and then Windows clones it was my first exposure to Macintosh. I haven't used anything else since. Professionally or personally. I'm about to go dig it out of storage and install Ubuntu!
I just installed Ubuntu Server 24.04 a week ago on one of these. It was kind of a pain because the bootloader was getting messed up by the mac firmware, but now, it's a really capable server, running some Docker instances and more.
I have the g4 version of that Mac mini, plus an i7 2014 Mac mini and an M1 Mac mini.
I’ve been using the 2010 core 2 duo unibody Mac mini as my media center pc (Plex mainly) since I bought in that year, recently I upgraded the ram to 8gb and now I run Ubuntu server in a virtual machine to run docker containers such as home assistant, twin gate and several others, the fans runs quietly too!
I installed Emmabuntüs on my old 2012 MacMini expanded with 1TB ssd and 10GB ram, and the thing runs like a new machine. Fast and with no hiccups. I did have to use an adapter for that 1TB NMVe ssd. I thoroughly enjoyed that upgrade and installation 😀
The last time I tried to install Ubuntu, it worked great as a live image, but had all sorts of issues once installed.
I run arch one one of these 09 Mac minis, such a treat for how cheap they can be
i have the 1.66Ghz mini, and about to upgrade it to a core duo. i love the minis as you can grab a few to represent the different Mac eras and have multiple working systems dedicated to mac os 9 and above, without loosing your desk space in the process :)
My MacMini is 2012. Just installed Ubuntu 20.04. Still great computer for my job.
I just bought a G4 mini and a 2GHz Core2 Mini 2,1 for $60 a couple weeks ago. Half the fun was getting them to work with modern solid-state storage solutions (the PPC one anyway) but they're definitely a good cheap intro to computing, or a cheap server box.
Running a maxed out Mac mini (with SSD) just like this w/ EndeavourOS as a smarter smartTV/Media centre. Love the I/O. Works great! :)
The funny part is this Mac mini is actually old enough to probably start its first year of high school there growing up so fast😂
Here's an idea:
Install Snow Leopard on it and use it as a gaming machine for early MacOS 10 games, including PowerPC titles.
And make it dual boot with an older version of Windows, to see how it plays Windows games from that period. It should support XP, Vista and 7 natively. I'd personally go for Vista, just for the sake of fun!
I was abducted into Wintelland during this period. How as the PowerPC emulation on these?
@@sinisterpisces When Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel, MacOS had something called Rosetta, a compatibility layer that allowed running MacOS X PowerPC apps and games on Intel processors. It's similar to modern day Rosetta 2, during the current transition from Intel to ARM (that's why you can run Intel apps on the M-series chips). Snow Leopard was the last version of the OS that came with Rosetta; after that, Apple dropped support for PowerPC programs completely.
@@HungryManticore Thanks. :) I remember that part. I just don't remember how well Rosetta 1 worked. I didn't come back to Macs from Wintel land until the switch to Intel was well over.
@@sinisterpiscesRosetta 1 worked well. It’s rare to find PowerPC titles for macOS 10 that don’t work on snow leopard; most of them work perfectly.
The only time you’d need proper PowerPC hardware is if you’re wanting to run classic macOS software by natively booting MacOS 9. These days the classic environment can be emulated pretty well-even on Apple Silicon Macs.
are the ISO files still available?
I have just got an Imac late 2009 same cpec apart from an e7600 clocked at 3.00 ish GHz.
Tried high seria then Monterey, but have settled on Ubuntu as the best experience for this old Mac cost only 50nzd or 30.05usd.
I will have to load up vampire survivor's.
Not gonna lie, nowadays, anything lower than 8GB ram and I will avoid any distro with full desktop environment like gnome (default for ubuntu) and just go with a standalone window manager like sway.
if you have a 1/2 decent dedicated GPU, and a strong dual core Solus Budgie still on X11 compositor will run fine on 4GB of system RAM for daily task(found an HP slimline at the recycle, and the max the BIOS will take is 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM), but normally I agree that 8GB should be the minimum.
@@CommodoreFan64I do remember having good time with Solus KDE 5 not sure the same could be archived with version 6.
@@wikwayer As I said Solus w/Budgie DE as that's their flagship DE. Having said that they are working on moving from X11 to Wayland, so only time will tell if Budgie remains as lightweight.
Nice! I have one of those... maybe mid-2009 so the middle clock speed. I added the maximum ram and it was a great machine. But the hard disk died... I bet one of these old sata ssd in a box on the shelf would revive it.
Nice video! Love the look of these Mac Minis. Tip though, switch to fastfetch instead of neofetch, neofetch hasn’t been supported for a couple of years and has been archived by the dev.
I put Manjaro on a 2011 mac mini recently to use as a server. Only tried it for Jellyfin so far but seems to work well. The one thing I cannot figure out but saw you do was to get back to that EFI boot choice. It worked fine to pick up the installer usb but I cannot seem to get back to it now that Manjaro is on there.
I use this same generation Mac Mini as a HTPC running Windows 7 and honestly it's a great machine for it
I have pop os running okay on the mac mini 2012 it runs smoothly. I do have 16gb ram so that helps, its neat that we can still use the old macs but with LInux.
Brilliant machines for Raspbian OS or for remote backups
Love using older macs!
I am using ubuntu 22.04 on iMac (27 Inch) with intel chip (late 2015). Works fine. I am loving it.
I have a g4 of that.. I still love it.. best audio computer
I have a 3.1 Mac Mini like that and it's a very reliable Mac. I put a SSD and a secondary drive in the DVD slot +8 GB RAM and it works just fine.
I use one as a server running Debian Linux, the exact same model too! Fun coincidence. And still a perfectly usable server for low-traffic sites, even running modern containerized apps.
Gives me an idea for what I could do with my mid 2010 mini since upgrading to an m2…. Did you by chance get the Wi-Fi working?
Got one of these for learning iPhone development, nice little computer.
Wow I have this exact Mac Mini that I'm trying to update to something usable. I'm setting it up at our office do display a schedule during work hours. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Chrome OS Flex to install successfully so far.
ON older machines like this if you're going to play TH-cam I highly recommend getting the browser add-on h.264ify as it will force TH-cam to serve h264/avc1 that is much less CPU intensive and can usually be decoded in hardware of that era which will keep it from pegging the CPU at 100% like the default VP9 codec will.
Btw just a tip, theres alot of settings and optimised clients for minecraft to run it on low end pcs, the default vanilla client is pretty clunky on low end hardware so thats why it wasnt that smooth :)
iirc, Linux Mint (an Ubuntu LTS based distro) would be running fine on the Mac Mini, to be specific on what DE you'd use would be either XFCE or MATE (GNOME 2), considering how lightweight they are in comparison to KDE Plasma, GNOME or Cinnamon, though this differs. And as for the Nvidia drivers, I think you need to specifically install a certain driver to use the old GPU to its fullest...not so sure, but this is to be certain from my experience at the very least.
Move over to Solus on this older hardware, and you might see better performance, as SNAP packages are more heavy on resources than they should be.
I got a white MacBook with these Specs. I tried Linux Mint on it.
Would be interesting to see if performance improves with Xfce or Lxqt desktops. Might also try an lsusb to see if any of the USB ports are 1.1 instead of 2.0, and which ones are flaky compared to the others
Check your mouse has no problems like corroded or dulled connections or short-circuit wiring _(or breaking wiring)_ or tinning solder. That mouse might work fine in the USB port if it is plugged into it via a mains-powered USB hub. The symptoms are akin to a lack of power. On the other hand, you might want to check the caps and resistors or soldering or corrosion or dulling of the metal connections. That too could impair a power input-output _(but of course there are also gadgets and multimeters that cold test it)_ and make a mouse lag. A keyboard is another on to test in it for lag _(as in some standard qwerty MSWindows keyboard)._ Interesting how the Wifi _(and at that bluetooth, and all NIC, including RJ45 ethernet LAN)_ don't have a wrapper class _(such as NDISWrapper_or_Ubuntu_custom_wrapper)_ on the Ubuntu ISO considering all Mac computers are a known quantity for components. It would be interesting to see if RAM upgrading could make a difference on that machine such as for browser tabs or humble QEMU usages.
MineTest as an alternative testing comparison to Minecraft would seem to make sense for your Mac mini Ubuntu box you have there, ya know. Also a DVD or CD of UT2004 _(Unreal-Tournament 2004, with its Linux install and, as such, no need for it to use WINE or proton, etc.)_ would be good when patched at 64bit for the dual-core usage it then comes with. Thereby, it should be reasonable, especially with community mods.
On a side-note _(or as an aside),_ talking about linux and FOSS, maybe ask your viewers to take a look at the Free Software Foundation ORG article _"We need your help to release the LibrePlanet 2024 videos"_ in their site (14th May) because they know some of their fans and supporters watch the video streaming and they made a boob and failed to record its conference footage by means of a disk error or drive problem, and they need help if anybody has a copy to send them _(such as a video file in some sort of whatever format, be it ogg-vorbis-theora or mpeg4 or vp9 or whatever)_ to dig them out of their whole. The electronic mail is "campaigns" for the FSF suffix. They need assistance. One cannot help but wonder if you get that wrapper-class if their video catastrophic situation is resolved by them getting help with the video streams footages. I heard about this after my donation ended up with their standards updating comms coming my way as per usual _(which is fine and handy like this)._ So consider following suit if you so desire.
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I see you installed New Vegas, how did that run given it's on hardware that's contemporary to when the game came out?
I recently got an old AMD Opteron system - very first generation x86-64. Minimum speed it was released at, 1.4 GHz. But dual CPUs. I then loaded it with its maximum 12 GB RAM, and a fast SSD (although the motherboard only had PATA, not SATA!) Then loaded Debian.
It was painfully slow. The motherboard was meant for a server, and predates PCI Express, so it only has PCI-X slots. I found a few different "faster than 32-bit, 33 MHz standard PCI" video cards (an Nvidia Quadro and a Matrox Parhelia) and couldn't find modern Debian drivers for either, so graphic acceleration was out; but even in text mode, things were far slower than it felt like they should be. Loaded in a 10Gbit Ethernet card, but local-network speed tests were well under *1* Gbit. Even using a 1 Gbit card, I'd get far slower than 1Gbit. Which is odd, because I know systems of that vintage could actually sustain 1Gbit transfer speeds.
I have one of these using OpenCore Legacy Patcher on the latest Mac version, and while performance isn't super great, it definitely is a fun machine to mess around with from time to time. That is especially the case since I got it for $30. lol
Is that one of the Mac Minis that one can change out the microprocessor to something a bit more up to date and add a bit more RAM?
The late 2000's had the best aesthetics in terms of apple products. It's a shame the white plastic tends to turn into this brown colour.
And yes it's aluminium, because magnesium is not magnesum.
I had this mac in 2010 and there was major interference between airport and bluetooth that caused mice to lag. Maybe similar reasons?
This was my first Mac. Loved it because I walked into an Apple Store and bought the cheapest one they offered... perfect for getting my feet wet. To this day, I didn't know it had Gigabit Ethernet. I was ready to comment that you misspoke, but darn it, you're right!
Gigabit ethernet is surprisingly old. Like even my old Quicksilver G4 has support for it.
My old Toshiba Satellite L505-S5990 is about 14 years old. I got tired of the incompatibility due to the age of the preinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, so I installed Arch-based Manjaro, deciding that the Windows 7 operating system and everything that I had installed on it wasn't worth my hardware's time, and that they could burn in hell. It's been about 20 hours since I installed this new operating system, and so far it's been working fine without noticeable hiccups, unless a bunch of website ads load or I'm doing something intensive. Due to the open-source nature of these projects and the simplicity of their designs, the operating systems are inherently lightweight, and these old computers can mostly handle them without problems. Don't fret too much if you want to install something new on your computer. Mine has 3 GB of RAM, and that operating system works perfectly well.
That slow boot is probably the USB 2.0
Thermal paste is probably turned to dust after 16 years, might not be so glitchy if that's replaced.
So do you think it would work any better in the original Mac Pro from 2006, the 2.66 Ghz model?
I'm using one of these 2009 with Ubuntu as a daily driver. What is really lacking in this video is the Broadcom wifi Bluetooth driver installation which is also not that difficult and improves a lot the overall experience . A suggestion; use it just with some local installed office work suite and for web browsing .... no games work fine in this old dude...
It'll be interesting to use XFCE and/or LXQt and see how the performance increases compared to the default offering.
What is the power consumption of this Mac machine? If it is low then it could run as a 24/7 server with a linux distro with no GUI.
I did get the nvidia driver working on debian 10 with my 09 mini
I resurrected a couple Core 2 Duo notebooks with Ubuntu 24.04 on them. One had 2GB RAM, one had 3GB. I'd say 3GB is the real minimum; the one with 2GB is very slow to boot, it's very slow to load anything (... but in "like new" physical condition so this is the one out of the 2 I ended up using...). Once firefox or whatever eventually quits swapping it actually runs OK, those cores do work pretty hard though (I can hit 100% just having it load for a solid second or two just loading whatever random web page, let alone streaming a video.
I did put KDE on there to shave off like 500MB RAM usage, which helped a little but Firefox and steam both use like 1GB RAM or so so that does not help.
One of the Core 2 Duos I ended up with has an 18 year old Intel GPU and the other 1 model newer C2D with a 17 year old GPU -- shockingly, they're not just "still supported" by some 3D driver, they actually have fully modernized 3D drivers written within the last 5-6 years. It's still got very low shader model support and such so running most games on it? No.
But Steam Remote Play runs a treat on it! I'm using it now when I have friends over, my friend plays on my laptop and I play Steam Remote Play on the C2D (instead of being off in the other room where my desktop is.)
On a SLIGHTLY newer setup, my friend (who passed recently) ran a Sandy Bridge (with integrated GPU!). This is only about 3-4 years newer than the C2D era stuff. No Vulkan so no dxvk or vkd3d, but Wine's (OpenGL-based) wined3d had it showing up as a DX11 Feature Level 10.0 card, which is enough to run modern Unity games! It ran nearly 100% of the older games we tried and when we just started throwing stuff onto it off Steam, probably 80% (with 80% of *those* having a playable frame rate.) Which is shocking, I expected it to be closer to 20% success rate once I dipped into the Steam games.
Replying to my own post since it was getting long....
My dad was running a Core 2 Quad with 4GB RAM AS HIS DAILY DRIVER until less than a year ago, with Ubuntu 22.04 on there. He ran the piss out of it -- streaming baseball, streaming videos, loading multi-100 page documents full of charts and graphs to review and edit, he loved printing stuff to make hand notes on it so lots of printing; scanning (both documents and photos). And once to twice a week Zoom conferences! Given Zoom REQUIRES a supported OS (it refuses to run if your OS is out of support, and you cannot run more than a 2 or 3 version out of date version of Zoom itself either...) I do wonder if he had the oldest system on Zoom? That Core 2 Quad was just 2 Core 2 Duos on a single chip, so that thing was a 110W chip and it was almost always pegging out 2 cores, and hitting 4 cores fully loaded pretty regularly!
(I found some Coffee Lake workstations for $180, got one for me, and my parents got one to replace the Core 2 Quad, the Core 2 Quad already had more modern storage so I just moved the drive over to the new system so nothing would change other than running faster. I kind of suspected it was a matter of time before the old Q6600 blew caps or a power supply or something and I don't live down there to hep them switch anythng out, I switched it out when I WAS down there on a visit. Having about 12x the processing power and something like 20x the performance per watt, he's enjoying that snappiness + not having heat pump out of the thing (since his typical use that was 55-110W on the old system is more like 10-20W on there.)
Hey, that’s (Nearly) the same Mac Mini as mine! Rocking a late 2009 server with a dualboot between Mint and Snow Leopard :)
To be fair the server had two hard drives (Which I then replaced with SSDs, Snow Leopard feels wonderful with one so dual booting is a lot easier.
I just have it for the nostalgia. Tbf I should probably put the Linux SSD somewhere else, probably in my FX6300 build
hi do you know which computer mouse you use in every video please
I've got two G4 minis on a shelf in my basement. Not sure if they're really able to do anything modern.
The fan went nuts when I tried playing games on the mac mini under OS X. I didn't notice the noise in the background.
RAM can be upgraded quite a bit on these. I think 16GB unofficially via some bios/equivalent tweaks. Did this many years back and was good fun. Can't quite remember but I think the CPU may be upgradable too.
Awesome little machines.
(2:23) The "Windows" on the start-up menu appeared because it was using the Boot Camp BIOS emulator. If you flashed the Debian installer on a flash drive using GPT instead of MBR, it would use EFI boot instead of the legacy BIOS boot sector, install the EFI version of GRUB instead of the BIOS boot sector version, and it would show up as "EFI Boot" or "debian".
(4:15) Yep, that's what I meant. Ubuntu using EFI boot instead of the legacy BIOS boot sector.
(5:23) I think it might be a Linux kernel issue, because I have two old server mainboards that use Intel C224 chipsets and I have them running Debian 12 (using Linux 6.1.0). When I plug a USB 3.0 external hard drive into one of the USB 3.0 ports, I find a lot of kernel messages indicating that it's trying to enumerate the device but failing multiple times, then I try again on a different port and it works, but only for a short while before the connection drops out during a file copy. When I plug the same external hard drive into a USB 2 port, it works fine. At this point, I'm considering just buying and installing a USB 3 expansion card, but I rarely need to transfer tons of data from both servers over USB, so I'm fine with network transfers and USB 2 for now.
When i saw 24.04 I knew I had to download it on my ThinkPad.
Fun video. I upgraded a 2006 intel Mac mini, with a better cpu and 4gb ram (using DosDud'es patch) to boot Linux Mint / Windows 10. Runs great for what it is. Use it in the living room. Nice for when I want to play a DVD since I don't use a stand alone player anymore.
Do you plan to also test out other distros? I'd like to see how Fedora runs on this thing.
Been trying to install Linux on a 2,1 mini for awhile now. Can get it to install from a usb drive but not boot into it from the ssd after
I'm currently commenting and watching this video on an iMac G5 with a 2ghz processor and 1 gig of ram. It's unrelated I just thought it was neat to mention.
At least this one is the 64 bit Core 2 Duo. I had an imac that still run the 32 bit Core Duo, and linux runs ok on it, video playback is crap though, although I put that down to missing support for the video chipset. Tried different distros from Ventoy also on newer imacs, and for people trying it, boot in grup2 mode, and also wait, it sometimes takes a while to boot.
Very cool.
I bought a GTX 960m laptop without a power supply for dirt cheap. I went and bought a chinese replacement. The replacement started smoking and then stopped working. I spliced the barrel jack onto that exact 110w power supply. My friend still uses that charger and laptop as his main computer to this day.
Do you know how to install bootloader on efi partition? I did not have option while installing,installer gave me only option to put on drive
I think the open source Nvidia driver works best with 16/20 series and up (I would assume it is older for this Mac Mini). But interesting it still works that well.