https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/blog/macos/ Recent content in Macos on passthejoe Hugo en-US Copyright © 2025, Steven Rosenberg. Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:59:21 -0700 https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/debian-11-on-a-mid-2011-apple-imac-27-inch/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:59:21 -0700 https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/debian-11-on-a-mid-2011-apple-imac-27-inch/ <p>An Apple <a href="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.7-27-inch-aluminum-mid-2011-thunderbolt-specs.html">Mid-2011 iMac 27-inch &ldquo;Core i5&rdquo; 2.7</a> fell into my lap some time around 2017, and even though it had a few years of MacOS support ahead, it was slow — never mind the 20 GB of RAM I added when supporting it for an Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.</p> <p>Booting took forever. Updates took forever. Saving an inDesign document took &hellip; you guessed it. A lot of spinning beach balls. (You know when I get spinning beach balls in Linux? NEVER.)</p>