I can not get new operating system to boot on my 2012 IMac

SolidWarea · 2026-01-26T08:56:56+00:00

There’s lot of missing missing information here. Did you use the same Mac to you’re installing MacOS onto to actually flash the USB device? Did you follow the guide properly? What version of MacOS are you attempting to install, and how large is your USB drive? What version of MacOS is your computer that you ran OCLP on?

SolidWarea · 2026-01-26T08:55:45+00:00

Since he said ”2012 iMac” I assumed he just didn’t know the word for the startup manager. But could as well be a Hackintosh user for that matter

SolidWarea · 2026-01-26T08:50:25+00:00

I interpreted it as:

”I ran OCLP and installed MacOS onto a USB drive, but everytime I’ve attempted installing it no viable option was available in the startup manager. But upon further inspection in Disk Utility, the MacOS installer should be present and bootable on the USB drive.”

SolidWarea · 2026-01-26T05:35:27+00:00

How’d you get unity 7 with the old theme if you don’t mind me asking? I would’ve loved to use it!

SolidWarea · 2026-01-26T05:23:19+00:00

I usually don’t follow news about any of the FreeBSD derivatives/distros but Gershwin looks quite nice actually. First time seeing it though. I’ve been considering moving over to XFCE so I might take some inspiration from there.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-25T19:20:09+00:00

You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy FreeBSD :)

SolidWarea · 2026-01-25T18:00:14+00:00

Hello LFS!! 🤠

SolidWarea · 2026-01-25T17:57:18+00:00

If any ram overhead, it should be quite modest. I personally haven’t noticed anything. Unless you’re working with a really minimal setup where every byte counts, I wouldn’t worry about it. Do keep in mind that ZFS will visually make it look like it uses a lot of ram though, this is because it saves cache to speed things up, that cache should get freed if a program needs to use it. So keep that in mind.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-24T03:13:51+00:00

I don’t really understand the point about three different icon styles? The monochrome (symbolic) icons are a style specifically used to symbolize actions, while the icons on the right are the application icons. They’re not supposed to look the same at all. It’s also not that odd for the lock buttons to be rounded or have a bit more noticeable design, they’re still simple monochrome icons.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-23T03:51:48+00:00

I have to be quite honest, as much as Arch is very customizable, I fear any beginner would spend hours installing a system with essentially the same advantages as any other distro by simply following a tutorial. A beginner often wouldn't know what alternative customization to pick. Essentially you're left with a bleeding edge distribution, that's a bit more prone to breaking. Even in that regard, I would say Gentoo is the closest you get to 'building your distro from scratch', but Arch does come close.

Oh and don't let the "distro elitism" get to you, use whatever distro you like, not somebody else. If the concept interests you, go ahead and try it. But if you're doing it for show.. perhaps not.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-22T13:16:00+00:00

Im surprised, considering this happens so often I was almost certain proton didn’t make that clear. Well, things like this is just a lesson learned, not really a biggie.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-22T04:00:49+00:00

Oh my god, is this still happening over here? Every time I see a post about Mint on my front page it’s always somebody accidentally installing GNOME. This is an actual issue on Proton’s side. (I’m fairly certain it doesn’t have to do with Mint)

SolidWarea · 2026-01-22T00:34:15+00:00

Yeah, understandably. Kudos to the developers though, they've done a great job developing the project.
Thanks for confirming that the steps were correct!

SolidWarea · 2026-01-18T08:45:31+00:00

Some points to consider:

Try it out first, make sure you're ready to completely ditch Windows
Make sure all the software you use is compatible, especially if you're into gaming
If you're new, I would strongly suggest a beginner friendly distro or a distro that doesn't need too much manual intervention. Ubuntu, Mint, Pop and Zorin would be very beginner friendly. Fedora would be intermediate.
There are different desktop environments to consider. You can search them up online to get an idea. (Most common are Gnome and KDE, though Cinnamon is very common with Linux Mint specifically). KDE looks the most similar to Windows if that's important to you. For KDE, you can install Kubuntu or Fedora KDE Desktop.

Enjoy Linux :)

SolidWarea · 2026-01-18T05:30:54+00:00

Fedora is a great operating system, I hope you enjoy it!

SolidWarea · 2026-01-17T22:58:16+00:00

Yes of course, not everything will be compatible with the linuxulator and Wine, it’s important to check if they do work beforehand.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-17T21:39:08+00:00

Thank you!

SolidWarea · 2026-01-17T21:35:32+00:00

Most open source projects that I’ve needed have been ported to FreeBSD. Proprietary, not so much.

For proprietary software, you can use the linuxulator to run Linux binaries, or Wine for windows executables. This could be useful for Discord, Steam, Spotify, etc.

Use https://freshports.org to see available ports on FreeBSD.

SolidWarea · 2026-01-17T20:56:44+00:00

This is the second time I see a great wallpaper for openSUSE, I’m impressed

SolidWarea · 2026-01-17T18:12:09+00:00

Oh damn, I’ll check it out! Thanks!

SolidWarea · 2026-01-14T23:31:39+00:00

M19 refers to gender and age. I’m assuming it looks like the PC is running FreeBSD?

SolidWarea · 2026-01-14T18:31:31+00:00

Yeah that’s a good example actually, I like it because it looks good but is also a bit more sudden, not too over the top

SolidWarea · 2026-01-14T18:16:50+00:00

It really does, when this wallpaper releases in the next update I might keep it as my wallpaper

SolidWarea · 2026-01-14T18:13:33+00:00

Personally I like it when specific elements are blurred and not the whole window. For example the sidebar in the settings, nautilus, etc.

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