- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it 🎉
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- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it
Quite a bit of setup still left, but I'm happy the basics are working, like that internet connection & also, screen rez & color etc. looks great 🤩 -
- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it
Quite a bit of setup still left, but I'm happy the basics are working, like that internet connection & also, screen rez & color etc. looks great 🤩@jwcph Quite an achievement, that. I've installed Linux on Macs a few times and it was not particularly fun. Hope you enjoy your new system.
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- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it
Quite a bit of setup still left, but I'm happy the basics are working, like that internet connection & also, screen rez & color etc. looks great 🤩@jwcph a Linux distro that included the Broadcom firmware by default and didn’t require some weird circular logic to get online?
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@jwcph Quite an achievement, that. I've installed Linux on Macs a few times and it was not particularly fun. Hope you enjoy your new system.
@cybervegan I hope so, too
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@jwcph a Linux distro that included the Broadcom firmware by default and didn’t require some weird circular logic to get online?
@iain I wish
apparently including the proper Broadcom driver is impossible - I had to use my USB-tethered phone for internet during the installation & then install the driver manually, which wasn't exactly smooth, but I got there 
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@iain I wish
apparently including the proper Broadcom driver is impossible - I had to use my USB-tethered phone for internet during the installation & then install the driver manually, which wasn't exactly smooth, but I got there @iain - with some help from the Zorum, where I also decided to post my solution, such as it is: https://forum.zorin.com/t/installing-on-2012-macbook-pro-cant-connect-to-wifi/53597/7
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@iain I wish
apparently including the proper Broadcom driver is impossible - I had to use my USB-tethered phone for internet during the installation & then install the driver manually, which wasn't exactly smooth, but I got there @jwcph Yes previously I ended up tethering my phone over bt and downloading at about 25kbps. I even hunted out my Apple Ethernet adapter but guess what… it’s a Broadcom device.
I’ll be interested in seeing how it will works, the last time I installed in my 2012 retina mbp it just pegged every core at 100%, burned through the battery in an hour and refused to sleep or hibernate when I shut the lid.
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@jwcph Yes previously I ended up tethering my phone over bt and downloading at about 25kbps. I even hunted out my Apple Ethernet adapter but guess what… it’s a Broadcom device.
I’ll be interested in seeing how it will works, the last time I installed in my 2012 retina mbp it just pegged every core at 100%, burned through the battery in an hour and refused to sleep or hibernate when I shut the lid.
@iain I'm interested in that, too - FWIW, right now it's running & I'm doing various stuff, installing Windows apps through Wine/Bottles etc., and the fans are totally silent
The interface of the Win app is absolutely tiny, though, almost too small to read, I'm gonna have to look into that...
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- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it
Quite a bit of setup still left, but I'm happy the basics are working, like that internet connection & also, screen rez & color etc. looks great 🤩@jwcph Yay! Hope you’ll enjoy Zorin/Linux!
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@jwcph Yay! Hope you’ll enjoy Zorin/Linux!
@mosgaard I hope so, too
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- aaaaaand this is posted from my now-Zorin-equipped Macbook Pro, and I'm even using Wifi, having managed to successfully install the correct driver for it
Quite a bit of setup still left, but I'm happy the basics are working, like that internet connection & also, screen rez & color etc. looks great 🤩@jwcph Cool! Did you make it work with dual-booting or did you ultimately decide to throw out MacOS entirely?
