Installed openSUSE on Macbook Pro (Intel)

My Macbook Pro (early 2015) isn’t getting any OS updates for some time.

Only version it supports is Monterey (which is already couple major versions behind the latest)

brew has also started complaining as This version is not supported

So I’ve been considering installing linux on it for some time anyway.

I finally pulled the trigger and installed openSUSE Tumbleweed

I had tried the live version, and knew and it generally works.

Their website suggests to use Offline image to install (and use Live version only for testing - even though there is a way to install from within the live session 🤷‍♂)

But ..

Offline image installation failed¹, mostly because it could not connect to the network.

So I did what I was planning anyway.

Booted into live environment, connected to the network, and then installed from there. It worked! 🎉

Finally, I booted into Linux on my Apple Macbook Pro

From live mode installer, I got error like exit status 1 No other info. I went ahead with ignore (Since I didn’t know what went wrong)

During the offline installation, error dialog offers the user to connect to the debugger, but without information about what went wrong, debugger is not helpful.