Nice video. I have a few Mac Pro 1,1 machines, all running Linux Mint via the Matt Gadient ISO. They’ve been humming along for years without issue. I mostly use them for office work and software development. They pair well with my modern workstations and servers. The power draw of these old Mac Pros is no joke, but I enjoy them so much I don’t mind paying the extra juice. They really are fun machines! I’ve maxed out their RAM, but haven’t upgraded their GPUs. Yet after seeing this video, I may have a go at it-and Arch, too, which is always a blast. Nice video and looking forward to more. Cheers!
I tried Matt Gadient's method (it's in the first video showing this machine). Unfortunately it didn't work with the latest Mint (or I'm just not smart enough to do it haha)
@@ex-itguy It’s been many years since I installed Mint on these machines, but what I vaguely remember is starting with the ancient OSX version that came with the machines, then upgrading unofficially to El Capitan via some funky kexts and OpenCore. Doing the OSX upgrade probably isn’t necessary to install Linux, but I was curious how El Capitan ran-and it ran fine. Then I installed rEFInd-which was the crucial step-and I remember being confused because I found several versions of rEFInd. After much experimentation, I concluded that a very particular version (or was it a fork?) of rEFInd worked best. After the very particular version of rEFInd was installed, I installed an older version of Mint from the Matt Gadient page, and then upgraded to the latest version of Mint. I also wanted to see what was possible without using the Matt Gadient ISOs. So I tested many other Linux distros, and I found a few that once supported these older Macs out of the box but later dropped support for them. Some of these distros had separate ISOs for these particular 32/64 Macs, while others supported them in the main ISO image. I don’t remember which ones-Ubuntu, Fedora, and even Parrot come to mind but it’s been a while. For all of them, I had to install extremely old ISOs and then upgrade from LTS to LTS to LTS to get caught up. It was a chore and things got buggy along the way. So I switched back to Mint and it’s been smooth sailing. The key to getting Mint installed was rEFInd. And if I had to redo it today, I wouldn’t. Took too long, and I’d probably just go with Arch like you did. Edit: no USB drives involved. Everything was installed via optical media. I also remember thinking the instructions on the Matt Gadient page left out some crucial info. I think I’ll go back and revisit all this now that I’ve seen your video. I’m curious how things are really working under the hood.
Right, rEFInd! Didn't try that. I'm not going to do a third video with this machine but I do have a similarly aged Mac Mini on which that might provide interesting results. :)
Nice video. I have a few Mac Pro 1,1 machines, all running Linux Mint via the Matt Gadient ISO. They’ve been humming along for years without issue. I mostly use them for office work and software development. They pair well with my modern workstations and servers.
The power draw of these old Mac Pros is no joke, but I enjoy them so much I don’t mind paying the extra juice. They really are fun machines!
I’ve maxed out their RAM, but haven’t upgraded their GPUs. Yet after seeing this video, I may have a go at it-and Arch, too, which is always a blast.
Nice video and looking forward to more. Cheers!
I tried Matt Gadient's method (it's in the first video showing this machine). Unfortunately it didn't work with the latest Mint (or I'm just not smart enough to do it haha)
@@ex-itguy It’s been many years since I installed Mint on these machines, but what I vaguely remember is starting with the ancient OSX version that came with the machines, then upgrading unofficially to El Capitan via some funky kexts and OpenCore. Doing the OSX upgrade probably isn’t necessary to install Linux, but I was curious how El Capitan ran-and it ran fine.
Then I installed rEFInd-which was the crucial step-and I remember being confused because I found several versions of rEFInd. After much experimentation, I concluded that a very particular version (or was it a fork?) of rEFInd worked best.
After the very particular version of rEFInd was installed, I installed an older version of Mint from the Matt Gadient page, and then upgraded to the latest version of Mint.
I also wanted to see what was possible without using the Matt Gadient ISOs. So I tested many other Linux distros, and I found a few that once supported these older Macs out of the box but later dropped support for them. Some of these distros had separate ISOs for these particular 32/64 Macs, while others supported them in the main ISO image. I don’t remember which ones-Ubuntu, Fedora, and even Parrot come to mind but it’s been a while. For all of them, I had to install extremely old ISOs and then upgrade from LTS to LTS to LTS to get caught up. It was a chore and things got buggy along the way. So I switched back to Mint and it’s been smooth sailing.
The key to getting Mint installed was rEFInd. And if I had to redo it today, I wouldn’t. Took too long, and I’d probably just go with Arch like you did.
Edit: no USB drives involved. Everything was installed via optical media. I also remember thinking the instructions on the Matt Gadient page left out some crucial info. I think I’ll go back and revisit all this now that I’ve seen your video. I’m curious how things are really working under the hood.
Right, rEFInd! Didn't try that. I'm not going to do a third video with this machine but I do have a similarly aged Mac Mini on which that might provide interesting results. :)
Love this please make more
Thanks!
Love your content. You should really be getting more attention.
Thanks! 😃
@@ex-itguy Here's a viewer from Japan! Looking forward to your videos.
Awesome! Thank you for being here!
Doing great with your videos! For the algorithm!
Thanks!
Awesome content as usual mate!
Thanks!
Leuke video!
Dank je wel!
1st like! watchign now!
Awesome!
8:19 How about LMDE 6 32-bit?
Sure, a 32 bit Linux should indeed work just as well. But since it's a 64 bit system it's not optimal for this machine.
@@ex-itguy Thank you very much
x1900xt wont support vulkan. its too old for that
That was the main point of trying other graphics cards indeed ;)
Install on it TempleOS
I already got rid of it, but it might be fun to try sometime