Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 24.10/25.04 on an old MacBook Air(2011)

Updated 2025-05-20 !

I have done several posts Blogging about how to keep an old MacBook Air(MBA), mid 2011(A1369), with SSD disk "alive". I have used the fantastic software package OpenCore Legacy patcher to upgrade the Mac to the latest Mac OS. 

A while ago i tested Mac OS Sequoia(15.3), on the mentioned Mac, but I had to admit that it was to much for the 14 year old companion.

I really like the Mac and everything works, after a battery change, so it ended up with installing Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS or if you want the latest scroll down and get Ubuntu 24.10/25.04.

Ubuntu Desktop for beginners or easy start !

Updated 2025-05-18

This post is for both Windows and Mac users ! 

I have been running Linux, Raspberry Pi OS, since several years but almost just the Lite version (without Desktop).

But when my old MacBook Air "gave up", with Mac OS, it came naturally to use Ubuntu Desktop since it's also based on the Debian Linux distribution and the most used Linux distribution.

So it ended up with installing Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS(UOS) or the later 24.10 !

Home Assistant and Node-RED

Node-Red(NR) is Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things.

I have in the past written a lot of posts for Node-RED and the HA implementation makes it easy to interact with HA:s entities.

The best thing is that even if you don't are a skilled programmer, but like logic flows, you can make really advanced things and it really complements the logic that could be made within Home Assistant(HA).

In this post I will do a quick introduction to what is possible with NR together with HA.