My faithful 2014 MacBook Pro is now stuck on Big Sur and is too old for Monterey, so it’s been the perfect time to partition it and create a Linux/MacOS dual boot.

I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver for around 18 months now and finally over the summer got stuck into KDE Plasma, which has felt like a game changer.

As a long time admirer of Solus I have their spin of Plasma on my main desktop Dell rig, which is solid. However I opted for Kubuntu on the MBP as there was less compatibility issues.

With Kubuntu everything worked out of the box except the FaceTime camera, but after a bit of digging I was able to install the driver for that too.

Although the MBP is 7 years old it’s still a very capable machine and now I’ve installed Kubuntu it continues to be a first class citizen in my set up.