Posted: 3/21/2026 8:59:07 AM EDT
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my macmini is end of Mac support life. what have you installed on your intel macmini to keep it up and running and have been happy with. it will be hardwired. bluetooth and wireless and not need debian 13 ubuntu 24 lts are probably my top 2 |
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Originally Posted By cruze5: my macmini is end of Mac support life. what have you installed on your intel macmini to keep it up and running and have been happy with. it will be hardwired. bluetooth and wireless and not need debian 13 ubuntu 24 lts are probably my top 2 |
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Originally Posted By chumpmiester: Is it a 2018 model or is it older than that. I know people have ran into problems trying to install Linux on the 2018 models due to the T2 security chip. Originally Posted By chumpmiester: Originally Posted By cruze5: my macmini is end of Mac support life. what have you installed on your intel macmini to keep it up and running and have been happy with. it will be hardwired. bluetooth and wireless and not need debian 13 ubuntu 24 lts are probably my top 2 Yep I believe so the last intel model I’ll be able to verify later. |
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decided last night on debian secure boot is already OFF. it will boot alma, fedora. and rocky it have made 2 different usb drives with debian. it will NOT boot off them  FIXED debian is the only one you have to press OPTION on startup to get to boot. whatever |
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Originally Posted By Deerhurst: Sounds like apple purposely made the fan control software based instead of hardware based like basically everything else. More half assed apple designs and implementations. A different OS not knowing how to address Apple's EFI isn't Apple's fault FFS. OP: If it's got upgradeable memory, just bump it up and run a newer MacOS via OCLP. |
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Originally Posted By MMcCall: A different OS not knowing how to address Apple's EFI isn't Apple's fault FFS. OP: If it's got upgradeable memory, just bump it up and run a newer MacOS via OCLP. Originally Posted By MMcCall: Originally Posted By Deerhurst: Sounds like apple purposely made the fan control software based instead of hardware based like basically everything else. More half assed apple designs and implementations. A different OS not knowing how to address Apple's EFI isn't Apple's fault FFS. OP: If it's got upgradeable memory, just bump it up and run a newer MacOS via OCLP. The t2 chip seems to not work with oclp according to YouTube |
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Originally Posted By Moondog: I read there are fan control daemons for use with mini's. There are. I ran Ubuntu on a Mini, I'd look to see what I had done to make it work, but I sold it last summer. It was a pain to find it, if I can find it in my bookmarks I'll post it for the OP. |