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Youtube front ends for macbooks? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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My degoogling is going very well, but I'm really struggling to let YT go... is there any Youtube front ends similar to newpipe for mac computers?

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

So, for the first time in sooooo long, I'm down to a single laptop (an M1 air), and it's my dedicate "no tinker" device I use for school. It's also my first ever apple device, and I sort of hate how much I love it. I still prefer Fedora, but I prefer the Mac to Windows.

When I can finally get a second device I can tinker with again, I was debating getting an old Mac and installing Linux, but I only have experience with Linux via old windows machines. I know Linux on Macbooks is a thing, but is it more difficult/less preferable to Linux on a Windows machine for someone who isn't particularly techy?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm running Asahi Linux on my M1 Max as my daily driver and absolutely love it. And if you want you can just dual boot and keep a Mac partition.

    Been running it since last year, with zero issues so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s kind of the same with fewer distros recommended and extra steps loading drivers for wifi and camera.

    Fedora works fairly well on 2015 MacBooks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    With the older Macs, do you have to dual boot like you do with the apple silicon Macs?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Nope, basically like a windows pc with some obscure parts. Reformat and go.

    Try Mint or Zorin or just Debian for testing and have wired networking available at first. Really old imacs are good but you should worry about the hdd. Before 2014 or under 8GB RAM use a lightweight desktop environment.

    Zorin on a 2013 MacBook Air 1.5gHz i3 with 8GB is usable though power management is clunky. Mint with xfce on a 2008 imac is just fine for basics.

    2018 i7 mac mini with enough RAM is pretty great with latest distros. A 27" 2019 iMac would be excellent, 5k monitor for cheap and easily upgradeable RAM. Drive replacement is ridiculous but ifixit sells kits.

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