Good work! We have a black MacBook from the same era at our house; my girlfriend uses Ubuntu on it as her main computer. Should have thought about blogging abou

Good work! We have a black MacBook from the same era at our house; my girlfriend uses Ubuntu on it as her main computer. Should have thought about blogging about it! That 32-bit EFI with 64-bit CPU is a real curse for installing recent Linux (although Ubuntu did release "amd64+mac" ISO images for these computers, I think even 14.04 is available this way). Additionally, my internal DVD drive for this MacBook failed, so I had to use an external DVD drive for booting said Ubuntu. It had the weirdest bug -- you had to reboot from rEFInd three times for the EFI boot to recognize that the external DVD drive has a bootable DVD in it. First time, it won't see it, second time, it won't see it, and on the third reboot, it magically does. The reason is likely because the drive spins up too slow and the EFI boot timeouts unless the drive is powered up from an earlier spinup. Besides the internal drive failing, the machine with Ubuntu on it is perfectly usable as a main laptop for a student. It shows how the laptop scene did not improve that much in the last 9 years -- and that one can save quite a bit of money if he buys a reliable machine and treats it well.