Post by @_elena@mastodon.social

(Almost) ready to turn my beloved MacBook Air 2013 - which is gathering dust on a shelf - into a #Linux laptop.

Only problem: multiple people might have swayed me to pick Arch Linux as the distro. #ArchLinux!!! I know NOTHING but from all the Linux memes I've seen over the years, I've always been intimidated by it.

Debating whether to go with it or #Mint or #Ubuntu. Thoughts?

Edit / update: it's now a toss-up between Mint and Fedora. I may try Arch on my Raspi4

#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

#mysocalledsudolife #archlinux #mint #ubuntu #askfedi #linux

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Greger

@greger@oslo.town 2 hr. ago

@_elena I installed Arch on my 2015 MacBook, having never used Arch before that, but having run other flavours of Linux as my primary OS for years. It was not a walk in the park. But I did get it to run in some capacity after a while. It was interesting to do, but I was curious about doing it.

Elena Rossini 🌈

@_elena@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@greger thanks! I hear that the documentation is really good and it may be relatively easy to get internet connectivity right away... but I'm also tempted by Mint

Greger

@greger@oslo.town 2 hr. ago

@_elena My mother is on Mint. She hasn't called me for support once! :D

Greger

@greger@oslo.town 2 hr. ago

@_elena Yeah, the documentation is good. And useful also when running other distros. But, also, test whatever, you aren't stuck with any of them forever unless you want to. Do what seems fun and/or interesting.

grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@grob@mstdn.social 2 hr. ago

@_elena I can only share that my experience with Mint was very good coming from Windows ant not knowing anything about Linux before.

Marco van Burgsteden 🍋

@Marrekoo@urbanists.social 2 hr. ago

@_elena Mint works very well on my imac from 2014. Only getting wifi to work is a bit of a hassle. N=1 and not a macbook.