On Wednesday, 12 August 2026 10:28:04 AEST Phil Steel-Wilson via luv-main wrote:
money installing & maintaining the most suitable Linux distribution on one of my od MacBook Pro & MacBook Airs (all top of the range for their era - 2013-2014 vintage with thunderbolt 2 ports and requiring
Macbook running Linux will always have more problems than more common hardware. The newer hardware is very nice (Linus has even used them) but for older hardware might as well get a regular PC. I recently gave away for free a Thinkpad that had better specs than 2013 Macbook pro systems because no-one wanted to buy it. She would be better off spending some money on a Thinkpad. The sales sites have Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 laptops (the first one with USB-C) going for less than $300. The Gen4 (which still has better specs than those old Macbooks) goes for as little as $150. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/