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One of my friends is volunteering in Kenya this summer. He was going to bring his brand new MacBook Neo. I talked him into bringing a burner laptop but his machine died. So I installed Windows 11 on a 2015 MacBook Air and documented the steps: drewking.dev/projects/win... #hardwarepreservation

drewking.devInstall Windows 11 on almost anythingA tutorial covering clean installation of Windows 11 using Rufus, including prep, driver backup, and Intel Mac hardware support.

Drew

@drewking.dev

The main thing was rewriting brigidier to download the bootcamp drivers. The program is written in Python2 so I migrated it to Python3 using 2to3 and I put the script in a fork of the main project on GitHub. github.com/andrewpking/...

github.comGitHub - andrewpking/brigadier-python3: Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease using Python3Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease using Python3 - andrewpking/brigadier-python3

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Drew

@drewking.dev

18 May

The result is that everything works, WiFi, Thunderbolt, trackpad, display. Just works. If anyone has #lastgen hardware laying around, it’s definitely worth considering this option if you aren’t familiar with Linux or need native Office Suite. My friend does not know Linux so this should work!

MarcKSkier ♿️ 💙🇺🇦 ⛷️ 🌵🏳️‍🌈 Ally

@marckskier.bsky.social

18 May

Re-upcycling old MacBooks is a win!