My MacMini is loving the taste of Mint

[stephanieswitzer]

I decided to Dual boot macOS and Mint on my MacMini and I have to say that Mint is running flawlessly so far. Apart from setting up the dual boot with rEFInd Mint installed without any issues and has had none since installation. Mint seems to run much faster than macOS and while i I'm still a MacAddict I'm loving Mint. In fact I've only booted macOS to install updates. And Mint looks great on my Sony 65" UHD 4K TV

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System:    Host: spsMacMini Kernel: 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: Apple product: Macmini5 1 v: 1.0
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1 v: Macmini5 1
           Bios: Apple v: MM51.88Z.007B.B00.1708080744 date: 08/08/2017
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-2415M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9179
           clock speeds: max: 2900 MHz 1: 2294 MHz 2: 2294 MHz 3: 2294 MHz
           4: 2294 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-37-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
           driver: tg3 v: 3.137 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0f0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
           driver: bcma-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 660.1GB (9.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK5065GS size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: 00BEVS size: 160.0GB
           Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 183G used: 26G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 9.22GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 4:47 Memory: 2222.6/7889.5MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 

[Snaffle]

Beautiful setup!

Isn't linus mint wonderful?

[Petermint]

Mint looks great on my Sony 65" UHD 4K TV

Wait until you see it on a large screen.

What do you do for sharing files between OSs?

[stephanieswitzer]

Mint looks great on my Sony 65" UHD 4K TV

Wait until you see it on a large screen.

What do you do for sharing files between OSs?

HaHa... A 75" would be awesome...

I have an external 250GB usb drive that both OS's can use. But to be honest I haven't fully committed to Mint yet as I've only been using it for a few weeks.