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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.

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[–] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am running Mint on a 2011 MacBook Air and it is running just fine. I tried Manjaro recently on an iMac 2014 but it does not come with drivers for Wi-fi and Bluetooth so I went to Mint with this one too. And I installed Mint on a friend’s MacBook Pro, can’t quite remember what year that was, guess 2009. And she hasn’t called me once for support since so I guess no problems.

[–] RAM_DOS@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is great info thank you! Dumb question: do you have any issues with the cd drive?

[–] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

none of these did have a cd drive

[–] RAM_DOS@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woops you did say Air! Thanks again!

[–] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t remember if my friend‘s Pro had a CD-Rom That were often removed to make room for a second HD or SSD