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Do you install linux on old laptops? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well, my macbook pro from 2009 is 64bit and normally uses efi but in order to get the nvidia GPU running I had to force it to boot grub2 using legcy Bios by using a CDrom for the ArchISO.