Installing Mint onto 2015 iMac

Support Request

I was recently gifted a iMac from a family friend with these specs:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac16,2
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 489.0.0.0.0
OS Loader Version: 540.120.3~37
SMC Version (system): 2.32f21

I tried testing the computer in Mint live with the intention of fully whipping Mac OS and had come up with a few problems. First, the speaker channels were mapped to the wrong places but was able to be fixed in the terminal. The second and more pressing problem was when I suspend the computer running Mint live it will eventually reboot and go back to Mac OS Monterey. My question is, does this error make it so that if I fully replace Mac OS will it persist and I would have a continuous problem?

Posted Aug 8, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

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