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We do not have our luck when installing Antergos on old Mac Mini (late 2009). Same as other Arch Linux system, the system keeps having soft lock and hangs. While we manage to stabilized the system after upgrading the video driver and kernel in Manjaro. We could not perform such upgrade in Antergos. So we decided to test Antergos using Virtual Box. The main advantage of Antergos is that we can use the same iso image to install different desktop environment.  Preparing USB or ISO Image If you are going to install on a physical machine, you can burn the iso image to an USB drive using command dd. For virtual machine, we just need to attached the iso image to the virtual CD-ROM. Preparing Virtual Machine To install Antergos into virtual machine, please make sure that we have a minimum of 10GB virtual HDD space. It is best to set the virtual HDD size to at least 20GB. Otherwise installation will failed. Installing Antergos Once we boot into the iso image, ...

We started out to install various Linux distribution on our old Mac Mini (late 2009). We have tried many Linux distribution. Most of the Linux distribution installed without any major issue. However, there are issue and problems to be solved along the way. Conclusion The most successful distributions are Debian/Ubuntu class of Linux. You can installed Fedora or CentOS if you are willing to give up the wifi capabilities. Alternatively, you can install the latest Wifi-USB adapter or if you have the time, you can attempt to build the Broadcom driver from scratch. This is due to the lack of drivers. We have issue with Arch Linux distributions on Mac Mini. It hangs frequently. We don't think it is hardware issue since other distributions works fine. We have tried many Debian/Ubuntu class of Linux distribution. Debian, MX Linux and Elementary OS are the most successful installation. Ubuntu and Linux Mint have intermittent wifi connection issue. Rela...

This Linux distribution gave us the most problem. Our advice is to skip this distro if you do not have much time on hand. We encountered many hardware issue such as system hang during boot up and video driver issue. However, we manage to install Manjaro on virtual machine using Parallel and VirtualBox. Installation on virtual machine went smoothly without any issue. It works well on both virtual machine. Download Latest Image Please proceed to Manjaro download site  and download the latest release. We can use the image to prepare USB drive or we can use it to install it in virtual machine. Preparing USB Drive We have downloaded the recommended release for Manjaro. The best method to make USB drive is to use command dd. We have tried the Ubuntu recommended Etcher but it could not boot from the Mac Mini. First, prepared a blank USB. Use any partition software to remove any partition from the USB drive. Next, we need to find the name of the USB drive. In Mac OS X, it is...