Hey everyone, I've had a few people ask about installing Manjaro on the original hard drive, or MacOS on the new SSD for a more accurate comparitive test. My reason for not doing so is addressed at 18:23. Basically, it comes down to time. I have over 20 hours of production in this video already, and that kind of testing would have made this video near 40 minutes long (incentivizing people NOT to click on it, which doesn't help me). However, if you want to do this test for yourself, you can back up your original OS with Clonezilla; video instructions here - ruclips.net/video/O5xFcA9MrDo/видео.html Simply image your Mac OS install with clonezilla, and if your new installation of Manjaro(or whatever else) isn't adequate, restore your Mac installation. Nothin' to it!
Good to see the install today, very good timing. I’m a retired Mac Tech with a long history working with Mac, PC’s and Linux. I have a old MacMini (2015) believe that I’m going to install a Linux OS one of the following disco’s Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Linux Mint, Manjaro, or elementary OS After reviewing your video I will try Manjaro first. Last point as someone then understands how the Mac works that SSD you installed would have made that old Mac zip right along. With older systems the Hard Drive gets really slow as you have found. A new install of the Mac OS would have improved the speed of start up and with the the new SSD it would be fantastic. If the person that you provided this upgrade runs into problems and give up you can still reinstall MacOS and they would be happy for a few years. Not to say Manjaro can’t do the job, but some Mac users have problems learning it. Thanks for providing today video 👍🏼
My 2010 Macbook Pro started having graphics kernel panics and crashing on me, about 6 months after the support contract for the MBP ran out (of course). So, I installed Linux on it, and then Virtual Box on top of that, with have a dozen different Linux distros on there. It never crashes anymore, and now I have a great Linux laptop.
Pretty sure I know what the audio issue is: if you look inside the headphone jack a red light will be on, because these models often thought a digital connection was enabled when you removed an analogue cable. When you select the output it probably would have said hdmi or the name of the device you were connected to, if this "fake" connection wasn't active. It is a little pin thing inside the minijack that can engage without actually having anything inside the port. But connect analogue cable and it will override. Often you just have to keep inserting and removing the cable - and fiddle around a bit in there - to disengage the digital connection.
You could have picked proprietary on boot to run the nvidia drivers directly and install them automatically. It would have fixed the capture card issue during install.
I spent a few months looking into different distros before installing Linux. I chose Manjaro and have no regrets. Sure pure Arch may be better, but if a drive fails; I'm back up and running in under 20 minutes with almost all of what I want installed without the overhead of a restore program. The live disk is incredibly useable too if you don't want to wait to install just to get online and get stuff done.
This was my first time using it. I was not disappointed. My normal Linux go-to are 'Buntu/Debian based distros, but I'll definitely be doing more Arch exploration in the future!
@@LowDoughTech Buntu and Debian are so far behind. I went back to Firefox from Vivaldi probably because the one I got with Manjaro fixed the RUclips issues, and gave me a better PiP. It's also not Chrome. -Don't like that George Soros donated and BLM crap came up in Pocket though.
Right now I am cleaning up a very, very old laptop of my parents. Running Windows 10, and even with a new SSD it crawls. It is a Dell Inspiron 1520 from 2007. Running a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of DDR2 on a single SODIM slot. The other slot is under the motherboard, where you have to remove it from the laptop. (Genus Dell...) 10/100 only Ethernet and Wifi G with USB 2.0 only ports. It came with a 160 GB 5400 RPM hard disk, and this is the second SSD to be put in it. A new WD Blue 250 SATA 2.5 inch SSD. So yeah, it still crawls, a fresh install of Windows 10 would help a lot, but I think I will just dump it and install Linux.
i am using manjaro kde it's pretty awesome it was laggy in start but with a few tweaks it is working perfectly fine btw thanks! your tutorials are great and very briefly you explain everything.
This is a nice video! Well done 😀I think the main reason why this MacBook is so slow is the HDD and 2GB Ram, that's just not up to date. Updating the RAM to 4GB might be worth it, too. Manjaro is a nice distro, it's my favorite Linux distro and I've also installed and tested it on my laptop.
I think the 2gb of ram would have helped, too. After his upgrade, he decided this would just become a garage computer, and he was eager to try Linux, so I think this was the perfect candidate.
I’ve got an old Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop with a dead hard drive and I’m trying to pick up a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini. I think Manjaro would probably be very nice for both of those machines tbh. It was down to that, Puppy Linux, and vanilla Debian since they’re both low-end machines (the Dell has a Pentium B950 and the Mac has a Core 2 Duo like your MacBook you used here). Although I’d love to see you install Linux on a PowerPC Mac.
If I get my hands on a power Mac, I will do that. I installed Lubuntu on a power Mac several years ago, and I had no problems with that, but that was before I started making videos, and I didn't record the process.
I dual boot my MacBookPro (late 2008) using Refind with Linux Mint 21 & MacOS 10.11. Linux Mint runs so well that i don't see the need to replace the original HD with a SSD so far...
It urgently needed SSD, but it needed RAM upgrade more urgently. When I had purchased a 2010 MacBook, the first thing I did was replacing the 2GB RAM with 8GB. 2GB is practically unusable now, even for Linux. I know this, because I have a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB. I had thought 2GB would be good enough for running basic Linux desktop, but wrong. Just opening a few pages in FireFox made the system stutter.
well basically people chuck out there old laptops bcz they are getting slower day by day, with a new ssd, ram upgrade and a linux os , will make the laptop back to its life ,i know it cant compete with new gen laptops and stuff but it can keep up with there daily activities or work and stuff , unless it comes to video editing or gaming kind of stuff i use a dell inspiron 5559 intel i5 6th, now a days after the windows updates and stuff it became slow booting and a lot of heating issues when i boot into the windows, it takes a lot of stress , but when i installed an linux in that i able to see the difference in booting and got less heating issues, i am dual booting the windows with arch linux and i havent seen any issues till now my laptop works great with the linux basically linux is fast in loading and have less issues than windows or mac is because linux is lightweight, not every linux there might be some which are heavy due its modifications and stuff and linux does use a swap which isnt much great of deal when it comes to usage but it takes the some ammount of load, a minor not upto in the mark in hdd, i dont know about how it works in ssd but after trying linux in my laptop i lost intrest in purchasing a new one.and welcome to the Arch Linux
I have a mid 2010 macbook pro 15 inch with an nvidia graphics card. Almost NOTHING works with it when it comes to linux. I managed to get ubuntu 16.04 to load, but it has a fan issue and it overheats the machine. I got it cooled down enough to get it through the installer, and it gets to where it writes all the files to the hard drive, then crashes.. sooo frustrating!!! Halp!? lol
Can't seem to get Nvidia drivers working with any distro on this computer... Infamous black screen issue - - I've followed so many guides. Works great asides from that...
Nice video! I have an old MacBook pro that a friend gave me that I need to repair and install Linux on... Problem is that I'm too cheap and it needs a charger lol...
@@adrdry9680 You could try Manjaro, but personally I would stick with Gallium, because Gallium is optimized specifically for the Chromebook hardware. You install it, and you're done. Manjaro will //probably// work, with some tinkering.
Thanks for the answer,my samsung 3 doesn't like gallium for some reason. Cannot run Vbox,cannot go to settings to disable secure boot plus more. Might be wrong but ,i am a rookie
Hey everyone,
I've had a few people ask about installing Manjaro on the original hard drive, or MacOS on the new SSD for a more accurate comparitive test. My reason for not doing so is addressed at 18:23. Basically, it comes down to time. I have over 20 hours of production in this video already, and that kind of testing would have made this video near 40 minutes long (incentivizing people NOT to click on it, which doesn't help me).
However, if you want to do this test for yourself, you can back up your original OS with Clonezilla; video instructions here - ruclips.net/video/O5xFcA9MrDo/видео.html
Simply image your Mac OS install with clonezilla, and if your new installation of Manjaro(or whatever else) isn't adequate, restore your Mac installation.
Nothin' to it!
Good to see the install today, very good timing. I’m a retired Mac Tech with a long history working with Mac, PC’s and Linux. I have a old MacMini (2015) believe that I’m going to install a Linux OS one of the following disco’s Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Linux Mint, Manjaro, or elementary OS
After reviewing your video I will try Manjaro first.
Last point as someone then understands how the Mac works that SSD you installed would have made that old Mac zip right along.
With older systems the Hard Drive gets really slow as you have found. A new install of the Mac OS would have improved the speed of start up and with the the new SSD it would be fantastic.
If the person that you provided this upgrade runs into problems and give up you can still reinstall MacOS and they would be happy for a few years.
Not to say Manjaro can’t do the job, but some Mac users have problems learning it.
Thanks for providing today video 👍🏼
My 2010 Macbook Pro started having graphics kernel panics and crashing on me, about 6 months after the support contract for the MBP ran out (of course). So, I installed Linux on it, and then Virtual Box on top of that, with have a dozen different Linux distros on there. It never crashes anymore, and now I have a great Linux laptop.
Very good man !!! I just installed it on my old Mac - working fine - Thank you !!!
Right on! I'm glad it helped!
Try to install GNOME version. its more aesthetic and better to use
Pretty sure I know what the audio issue is: if you look inside the headphone jack a red light will be on, because these models often thought a digital connection was enabled when you removed an analogue cable. When you select the output it probably would have said hdmi or the name of the device you were connected to, if this "fake" connection wasn't active. It is a little pin thing inside the minijack that can engage without actually having anything inside the port. But connect analogue cable and it will override. Often you just have to keep inserting and removing the cable - and fiddle around a bit in there - to disengage the digital connection.
Thanks! That's good to know!
You could have picked proprietary on boot to run the nvidia drivers directly and install them automatically. It would have fixed the capture card issue during install.
That's good to know for next time. Thanks!
I have managed to put elementary OS on a 11" Macbook Air that has breathed new life into the laptop
I spent a few months looking into different distros before installing Linux. I chose Manjaro and have no regrets. Sure pure Arch may be better, but if a drive fails; I'm back up and running in under 20 minutes with almost all of what I want installed without the overhead of a restore program. The live disk is incredibly useable too if you don't want to wait to install just to get online and get stuff done.
This was my first time using it. I was not disappointed. My normal Linux go-to are 'Buntu/Debian based distros, but I'll definitely be doing more Arch exploration in the future!
@@LowDoughTech Buntu and Debian are so far behind. I went back to Firefox from Vivaldi probably because the one I got with Manjaro fixed the RUclips issues, and gave me a better PiP. It's also not Chrome. -Don't like that George Soros donated and BLM crap came up in Pocket though.
to switch to hdmi you gotta click the speaker button on the taskbar and select output and hdmi or whatever
Right now I am cleaning up a very, very old laptop of my parents. Running Windows 10, and even with a new SSD it crawls. It is a Dell Inspiron 1520 from 2007. Running a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of DDR2 on a single SODIM slot. The other slot is under the motherboard, where you have to remove it from the laptop. (Genus Dell...) 10/100 only Ethernet and Wifi G with USB 2.0 only ports. It came with a 160 GB 5400 RPM hard disk, and this is the second SSD to be put in it. A new WD Blue 250 SATA 2.5 inch SSD.
So yeah, it still crawls, a fresh install of Windows 10 would help a lot, but I think I will just dump it and install Linux.
I have an old HP desktop which has a core 2 duo and 4gb ram, I put in a 16gb ssd and installed Zorin OS, it runs great!
i am using manjaro kde it's pretty awesome it was laggy in start but with a few tweaks it is working perfectly fine btw thanks! your tutorials are great and very briefly you explain everything.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy the videos!
Which tweaks if I may ask?
Good job with the screen driver problem
This is a nice video! Well done 😀I think the main reason why this MacBook is so slow is the HDD and 2GB Ram, that's just not up to date. Updating the RAM to 4GB might be worth it, too. Manjaro is a nice distro, it's my favorite Linux distro and I've also installed and tested it on my laptop.
I think the 2gb of ram would have helped, too. After his upgrade, he decided this would just become a garage computer, and he was eager to try Linux, so I think this was the perfect candidate.
I’ve got an old Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop with a dead hard drive and I’m trying to pick up a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini. I think Manjaro would probably be very nice for both of those machines tbh. It was down to that, Puppy Linux, and vanilla Debian since they’re both low-end machines (the Dell has a Pentium B950 and the Mac has a Core 2 Duo like your MacBook you used here). Although I’d love to see you install Linux on a PowerPC Mac.
If I get my hands on a power Mac, I will do that. I installed Lubuntu on a power Mac several years ago, and I had no problems with that, but that was before I started making videos, and I didn't record the process.
Nice job Paddy! That looks like one of the easier tear aparts for hard drive removal.
I dual boot my MacBookPro (late 2008) using Refind with Linux Mint 21 & MacOS 10.11. Linux Mint runs so well that i don't see the need to replace the original HD with a SSD so far...
which manjaro did you use?
It urgently needed SSD, but it needed RAM upgrade more urgently. When I had purchased a 2010 MacBook, the first thing I did was replacing the 2GB RAM with 8GB. 2GB is practically unusable now, even for Linux. I know this, because I have a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB. I had thought 2GB would be good enough for running basic Linux desktop, but wrong. Just opening a few pages in FireFox made the system stutter.
Could you control the MBP fans with that distro?
well basically people chuck out there old laptops bcz they are getting slower day by day,
with a new ssd, ram upgrade and a linux os , will make the laptop back to its life ,i know it cant compete with new gen laptops and stuff but it can keep up with there daily activities or work and stuff , unless it comes to video editing or gaming kind of stuff
i use a dell inspiron 5559 intel i5 6th, now a days after the windows updates and stuff it became slow booting and a lot of heating issues when i boot into the windows, it takes a lot of stress , but when i installed an linux in that i able to see the difference in booting and got less heating issues, i am dual booting the windows with arch linux and i havent seen any issues till now my laptop works great with the linux
basically linux is fast in loading and have less issues than windows or mac is because linux is lightweight, not every linux there might be some which are heavy due its modifications and stuff and linux does use a swap which isnt much great of deal when it comes to usage but it takes the some ammount of load, a minor not upto in the mark in hdd, i dont know about how it works in ssd
but after trying linux in my laptop i lost intrest in purchasing a new one.and welcome to the Arch Linux
I have a mid 2010 macbook pro 15 inch with an nvidia graphics card. Almost NOTHING works with it when it comes to linux. I managed to get ubuntu 16.04 to load, but it has a fan issue and it overheats the machine. I got it cooled down enough to get it through the installer, and it gets to where it writes all the files to the hard drive, then crashes.. sooo frustrating!!! Halp!? lol
You should try LINUX PEAR OS (alike MAC OS) next time for old MacBook
Could you install linux on original hdd? To compare the speed of linux on the original hardware.the Ssd itself gives a boost to the system.
18:23
you forgot to make swap, not sure if it automatically made a swap file
with this little RAM, you should check and make a swapfile :P
Is this the A1278 model Macbook?
Can't seem to get Nvidia drivers working with any distro on this computer... Infamous black screen issue - - I've followed so many guides. Works great asides from that...
Nice video! I have an old MacBook pro that a friend gave me that I need to repair and install Linux on... Problem is that I'm too cheap and it needs a charger lol...
I've heard that the isight camera has compatibility issues in Linux and doesn't work. Can you confirm?
I installed the galillium os after seing your video but now i wanna install manjaro on it,any tips on that?
Do you mean on a Macbook or a Chromebook?
Its a Chromebook.
@@adrdry9680 You could try Manjaro, but personally I would stick with Gallium, because Gallium is optimized specifically for the Chromebook hardware. You install it, and you're done. Manjaro will //probably// work, with some tinkering.
Thanks for the answer,my samsung 3 doesn't like gallium for some reason.
Cannot run Vbox,cannot go to settings to disable secure boot plus more.
Might be wrong but ,i am a rookie
Kubuntu 21.04 works everything out of the box no aditional drivers are neccesary it better on mac hardware
Did you check the camera?
PAMAC baby!
On a MacBook I think I would have used DeepIn OS.
Have your client commented on battery life? How is it going so far vs macos?
Actually, he's a buddy, I can follow up with him and see how it's working out.
@@LowDoughTech Thanks! Waiting for an update, then :-)
put pulseaudio to work with audio
Ah the ram is kynda fiew 2 GB for x64 vit sxstem us not optimal put 4 GB RAM
Kubuntu has better support on mac hardware and kde is les resources eater with steam game running dota 2 y barely have 2 gb ram usage
I would have gone with Debian