Does anyone have a recommendation for distros that would work well on a 2011 MacBook Pro? It’s in decent shape and as far as I know there’s nothing wrong with it. I figured I could use this as both a learning opportunity for myself and a way to give the laptop a second life. I’ve done some research the past few months and there seems to be some conflicting opinions out there and also some of the posts/tutorials are a few years old so I’m not sure if anything has changed. I’ve generally seen that Ubuntu, Mint and Arch would be good and the processes seem straight forward. I’d really appreciate any suggestions before I pull the trigger.

  • Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Fedora is the only distro that I tried, that had WiFi working out of the box on my MacBook Pro 2017. It’s a little bit newer than your MacBook, but it should work. Also I prefer the KDE spin of fedora.

    • RAM_DOS@programming.devOP
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      11 months ago

      Thanks for this! I keep going back and forth on this. The very first article/tutorial I found was about Fedora on exactly the model of MacBook I have. I’m still considering it simply because I know it works based on this persons experience, but if I recall correctly the Wi-Fi didn’t work out of the box and some configuration was needed.