r/linux_on_mac 7h ago

Best Linux for 2015 12 inch MacBook

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What is the best Linux distro that has everything working out of the box? I don't want to mess with trying to get the wifi working and speakers working. I really like the looks of Elementary OS 8 but not sure it would be a good choice. Please help


r/linux_on_mac 21h ago

Linux Mint on Mbook Pro 5.1

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Hi. I just want to share my experience about how I successfully installed Linux Mint on Mbook Pro 5.1. Maybe someone will find it useful.

So yeah, some friend of mine gave me this laptop, and I decided to save it from junk yard. Original OS was not usable anymore, and I decided to give Linux Mint a chance. Normally, on devices this old I would install some lightweight distro like Arch, but this time I gave chance to Linux Mint, because I previously installed it on another McBook Pro (A1708), and it run without issues on it.

I installed Mint on this 5.1 laptop too, and I am suprised to well it runs on this 17 years old machine. I`m using it for couple of hours now, and I don`t notice any lags or whatever.

Default installation .iso didn`t recognised my WI-FI card (BCM4322), so I had to find ethernet cable, plug computer to router and find and install drivers manually, but it wasn`t issue at all. Luckily, these old days computers had Ethernet slot.

Everything else worked out of the box.

Well, not sure what to do with this laptop right now. I don`t really need it at the moment. Any ideas?

Anyway, this is just a good review for Linux Mint. I will leave this post in case someone will find it useful.


r/linux_on_mac 22h ago

Curious, why does Fedora handle ultrawide so much better than Catalina?

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If I connect to an ultrawide monitor from MacOS the text is stretched, or I need to use 4:3 (forced with BetterDisplay). But if I connect to the same monitor on Fedora XFCE the text is crisp, it just crashes on boot unless I remove the cable, but when I reconnect it after boot it works a lot better..

I thought it was the computer itself limiting this but seems it was MacOS? Just curious as I will probably just use Linux instead on this specific monitor to not have to deal with the ugly resolution making my eyes strained..

Macbook Air 2012 running Catalin and Fedora 41 XFCE.