MacBook Pro, Core i5, 2.8 GHz (I5-4308U), model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13", MacBookPro11,1, RAM 8 GB, VRAM 1.5 GB, Storage 512 GB SSD
vlc, tor, brave, firefox… are apps that I cannot download. Neither can I use mac’s app store, because software is too old.
What would be the point of not nuking this OS X?
Oh hey! I think I know the solution to this issue because I just went through it last week with an old 2009 iMac I’ve got laying around. I don’t think it’s really a proprietary video issue. It’s a problem with the bootloader handing over the GPU to the OS. As far as I was aware, the AMD graphics card in my iMac has an open source driver.
Edit: I tried to type out how to do it but my client crashed and I’m not up for doing it again, here’s a link that will help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu