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I would love to pick your brain as well if you don’t mind! I have a 2016 MacBook Pro, Intel processor one of the last ones, that is actually in pretty great shape but I just don’t use a lot these days. I’ve been thinking about turning it into a Linux machine. I would like steam to run on it, but mostly it’s to teach myself Linux/experiment. Steam is definitely not a requirement so if that’s really bogging down my options I’m down for some versions that don’t have steam. I’ve got a steam deck and a Mac Studio that pretty much covers my PC gaming bases.
Decide, 1st, on the point of your installing Linux on it:
IF you want the most-fundamental-understanding,
THEN you want the book "How Linux Works", the most-recent edition of that, and maybe you want a Debian/Ubuntu in order to guarantee that any problem you encounter will already have been encountered by somebody else, while you are getting competent in the fundamentals... There are 2 Linux System Administration books to consider, after you work through that one, 1 is from OReilly, the other .. I can't remember who published it, but it has several authors, & a cartoon on the front cover, and it is huge, and it is the one you want.
Neither of those books are cheap, but try comparing them with a university-year of a course, and the competence you can earn through those 2 books is at least that level.
You also are going to need, around the time you get partway through the 2nd book, a book on Linux Security.
IF you are just a crazy hack-at-things person who likes technical toys, then maybe Void is more likely to be fun for you...
Linux From Scratch is how you get the every-last-step-of-the-way understanding, but I haven't done that one yet, because I want to keep using my computer for things like writing, and LFS might make me avoid my machine ( I spent years burnt-out from geekery, several times, and am leery of getting myself that way, again, but LFS really is the way to get truly-competent as a sysadmin. ).
You will need the same books listed above, though.
Do well!
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MacBooks are amazing for Linux. Dope hardware. You can use Proton w Steam to game, works nice.
Maybe one day when I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll boot Linux onto my Mac Studio!
Doooo ittttt ❤️ I'm still on OSX 12 for my work PC. I'm iffy about 13+