Such a disingenuous headline. The article outlines how pre-2012 Mac can’t support Metal, which breaks a bunch of stuff.
An aside: A few years ago, I used OCLP to install Monterey on my old (Early 2013) MacBook Pro 13”. It was fine, until one day it just stopped booting. It wasn’t hardware: Wiped it, reinstalled Catalina, still worked fine. It’s a fun toy to play with, but I wouldn’t want to be depending on it for anything important.
On similar note, it’s a shame to see perfectly functional older systems to be left behind due to expired root certificates or other similar issues. I don’t care about the bells and whistles of newer OS, but is there a way to update older systems to support slightly newer encryption standards so it can continue to hang on for a bit longer (as macOS system, I know of course I can install Ubuntu on it)? — looking at my unibody aluminum MacBook from 2011 or so, for example.
Eh, I’ve been using OCLP on a few Macs for the past couple of years and have never had a troubles once they’re set up and running. I’m running Sonoma on my 2014 mini that I’m typing this on, and it’s solid.
But yeah, I have a 2011 mini as well that I use for giving Keynote presentations that I’ll probably leave on Monterey because it huffs and puffs a bit even with that. The lack of official Metal support is a pain, and while OCLP has done a really good job of overcoming it up until Ventura, by all accounts it’s not great under Sonoma. So far.
I think I’d rather install Linux on my old macs, but I have 0 knowledge on which would be best for a mac
I’m currently running Fedora on a 2011 mac mini. I would definitely recommend linux in this situation.
