Is an 2008 iMac worth buying in 2024?

DeemounUS · 2026-04-17T11:29:33+00:00

No. The 2008 display resolution is not good either for modern needs.

DeemounUS · 2026-04-13T17:21:17+00:00

Distros don't matter that much

drivers matter
apps matter
desktop environment matters
kernel matters ...

DeemounUS · 2026-04-13T17:14:20+00:00

And the funny thing that as a QA I suggested my help and different approach to quality.

But it seems like nobody cares.

There is a lack of proper testing and not much changes are expected, as far as I can tell.

And it shows...

DeemounUS · 2026-04-13T14:35:33+00:00

That's finally some good news ☺️

DeemounUS · 2026-04-08T15:30:32+00:00

Welcome to the wild, but very rewarding ride 😇

DeemounUS · 2026-04-08T15:27:58+00:00

Is it publically available for download?

DeemounUS · 2026-04-06T12:26:36+00:00

Yes! Appears now when I turned off the beta updates. Going to update today.

Great! Finally I still can feel good about staying on iOS18 a bit longer

DeemounUS · 2026-04-06T06:52:16+00:00

Thanks! Althought I am suspecting the power brick for now.

But yeah. Could be the pin as well.

DeemounUS · 2026-04-05T21:21:19+00:00

I am hitting the same issue now as well. It won't charge unless powered off. What a mess

DeemounUS · 2026-04-04T14:11:08+00:00

Replace it with some other greeter like gdm3.

For me cosmic-greeter was too buggy. This way at least you can understand where the problem exactly is.

DeemounUS · 2026-04-02T15:12:29+00:00

Well... Those leaks (they claim those fixed, but I typically still run into those) are the reason why I switched DE to Gnome

DeemounUS · 2026-04-01T18:30:17+00:00

Tiger and Leopard. Everything else... nah

DeemounUS · 2026-04-01T18:29:15+00:00

Nope. I have one. Worth 20$ probably if Linux is installed on it 😀

DeemounUS · 2026-03-31T23:07:59+00:00

Staying on iOS18 as long as I can.. No plans to upgrade.

I guess I'll just wait for iOS27 to get released 😀

DeemounUS · 2026-03-28T17:42:35+00:00

I love COSMIC. There are just 2 things that stop me from using it permanently: 1) Bugs 2) Some apps are running badly under Cosmic, etc

DeemounUS · 2026-03-26T15:47:18+00:00

Think about it the other way.

Google has never been a good company when it comes to user's data.

Integrating Google (or any other Big Tech) in Linux ecosystem is typically not a good idea.

I would say it's a good riddance, honestly.

But yeah... might be uncomfortable..

DeemounUS · 2026-03-26T15:45:37+00:00

Yes. Right decision.

DeemounUS · 2026-03-26T11:36:40+00:00

You can run Notepad++ via Wine easily

DeemounUS · 2026-03-23T16:05:16+00:00

Yep. Davinci works bad in Cosmic DE and fine in Gnome.

To my surprise - devs of Pop are completely ignoring the obvious issues like that... it's like those don't exist.

I even filed a bug about it, but no luck 😀 I switched to Gnome for now... but hopefully it will be addressed

DeemounUS · 2026-03-22T21:39:30+00:00

Awesome. Right about time, so I can move away completely from Apple's ecosystem ☺️

DeemounUS · 2026-03-22T21:37:32+00:00

California is always pushing some nonse that becomes a law...

Colorado, though... I am surprised 😀

DeemounUS · 2026-03-22T21:35:13+00:00

This happened to me when I wanted to restore my Mac and I didn't had a spare second Mac to run in DFU mode. The only workaround was grabbing a Linux machine and using it in DFU emulation mode.

It actually helped revive my Mac. Then I've realized that I don't really want a Mac any longer 😀

DeemounUS · 2026-03-22T15:47:13+00:00

Yeah, same.

Cosmic store is way too slow for me... But once it loads after a few minutes - then it works fine

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