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(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
@CorinaKarstenberg thanks! I have Ubuntu on my Raspberry Pi 4 and I like it... but I've always been tempted by Mint
@_elena may I throw in a wrench and suggest Fedora?
It’s running SO well on my MacBook Air 2014.
I had mint on it, my previous favourite distro, but Fedora runs SO much better.
@sylvia oooooh thank you for the advice Sylvia! Did you have issues with internet connectivity? (aka getting your Wifi to work)?
@_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.
@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
@_elena I can only share that my experience with Mint was very good coming from Windows ant not knowing anything about Linux before.
@_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.
@_elena I use Mint on the laptop that I use a lot. It is very easy to handle and update. For my writing I have a special laptop with Ubuntu. They say it is more difficult I don't know.