Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has a 2012 MacBook Pro and she can’t macOS updates anymore because it’s Applecrap.

So I’ll dualboot Fedora and MacOS. We’ll keep macOS just for a few exceptions like iPhone backup.

I already have a Fedora installation on my Surface Go 1 and I took a lot of time setting it up perfectly. Is there any way to « clone » that installation on the MacBook so that I don’t have to go through everything again?

  • vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    By clean install I mean plugging the USB, install only fedora, replacing macos and then coping your configs and data.

    Of course, back up before you do anything.

    You can also try Fedora KDE and theme it to a MacOS aesthetic so she feels at home.

    I recommend you to try the live USB before installing. Probably WiFi wont works so you either look at drivers in the repository, or get an USB WiFi dongle.

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      1 year ago

      Well I think that finally what I’ll do is just install Fedora and make her use MacOS/Windows 10 in Gnome Boxes or something similar. I have heard about sosumi for Mac OS and apparently it works well. I just have to figure if sosumi downloads Macos or if I have to get a copy myself.

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        1 year ago

        Well I managed to install Sosumi and it takes care of downloading MacOS for you. But, it doesn’t seem stable and I’ve given up on it. So it’ll just be a windows 10 VM in Fedora for everything related to her iPhone.