Need help installing linux

What? You want to upgrade OSX? This is a Linux forum, so we're probably the wrong guys to ask, even though OSX is sorta related to Linux.

But I happen to know exactly what you're talking about. I actually had this exact problem with this exact model of Macbook several years ago. If you didn't upgrade to OSX 10.7 Lion on time, then you're basically hosed. The upgrade path is broken, because Apple requires you to have Lion to upgrade to anything newer, but the servers for the Lion upgrade have been down for at least 4 years, so the upgrade path is completely broken. Not fixable.

Not that upgrading would help much. Even on my 2010 MBP, the upgrades started causing such sever performance issues that I was forced to wipe OSX out completely and install Ubuntu in it's place, so now my MBP is not really a MBP anymore.

Either way, you'd probably be better served with a Chromebook for less than $200 new. 10 year old laptops aren't something you should have to live with when you can get better for next to nothing.

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