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I managed to revive a 2010 Macbook Pro that had an issue with the logic-board/GPU. Ubuntu 18.04 works flawlessly on it. Although Gnome is a little heavy, so my
by throwaway8879 8y ago
I managed to revive a 2010 Macbook Pro that had an issue with the logic-board/GPU. Ubuntu 18.04 works flawlessly on it. Although Gnome is a little heavy, so my i3 setup with some XFCE settings works very well.
- copperx 8y agoI also have a 2010 MBP with a logic board problem. How did you manage to revive it?
- throwaway8879 8y agoI just installed Xubuntu on it. I suppose it uses the integrated GPU by default? As far as I can tell, it was the switching between GPUs that was causing the machine to crash on macOS. I recall having installed gfxCardStatus on it to stop the switching, but it wasn't super-reliable. Anyway, it works pretty well now for some dev work and light browsing. Hope you manage to fix yours!