As per title, I am mind-blown by the speed and stability of NixOS on this “relic” in IT terms… On this machine i tested:

Distro Performance
Fedora MEGA slow
Ubuntu OKish
LDME Fast
Debian Fast
NixOS VERY Fast

And the best thing is that I can bring this config with me on any computer! Oh boy, I think i have fallen in love with NixOS

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    7 days ago

    Did you leave a MacOS partition for firmware upgrades, or just make sure it was fully updated before wiping?

    Does all the hardware work? Which guide did you use for prep and install?

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      6 days ago

      It was updated before wiping yes. Those macs are abandonware, they stopped receiving firmware update a while ago. Followed no guide, the install wizard was very easy. All components worked out of the box

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        6 days ago

        That’s great. I have a few Macs about that age, and I was really hoping to revive them with Linux.