I’ve had many issues in the past with different distros suddenly breaking after an update, and me not really knowing why or how to troubleshoot without just erasing.

This was all just on an old 2012 Mac - a spare computer these days - just for fun and to learn Linux a little. I always suspected the Nvidia graphics was the likely culprit.

I was running Mint a good while without issue. But recently after messing around with other distros some more, I got to a point where most distros wouldn’t boot after installation or even boot the install USB anymore. Even distros that had been fine before.

Ubuntu, Mint and Pop all either fail to boot the installer or fail to boot after install. Debian itself, I’m not sure. The trackpad didn’t work for installation so I immediately gave up there!

It’s a decade+ old Mac, so maybe new releases just don’t support some aspect of a Mac that old? Although currently I’m running Manjaro flawlessly, partly as it’s all I could actually get to work. And that should be more bleeding edge than anything Debian-based?

I’m not looking to troubleshoot really, Manjaro is working perfectly and I spent long enough on getting to that stage!

But wondered if anyone already knew or had a theory.

Thanks!