Thinking nothing more wonky than mint/pop!/bazzite/elementary. I know there is never “one” perfect one but feeling like trying something new on this machine that’s at least somewhat push button. 
Since it no longer receive regular updates from Apple I just want to keep this machine available for use when needed.

I’m pretty comfortable on the above ones I mentioned. I’m not a coder/engineer so I tend to lean heavily on flatpaks and such, though if I have to go into the terminal occasionally I can usually poke my way around

  • glitching@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    ubuntu because everything works.

    in case you can’t stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you’re set.

    two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won’t come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won’t wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I’ll dig up the the script.

    stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    try arch with something comfortable like kde, you seem like you’re at the perfect skill level for trying it out

    • RedBauble@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I used to run Linux Mint on mine. Worked fine, some quirks with the ctrl key not working. Did you have the same problem on EOS?

      • HexagonSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        The only problem I’ve had was the Mac not going asleep properly, and immediately waking up. But that’s something I encountered on other distros including Mint also.

        Found a fix for it.

        Ctrl key hasn’t been a problem. Often on many distros the old hybrid Nvidia graphics and the old Broadcom card were both problems. But ok on Mint and EOS.

  • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    If you’re comfortable administering your own system, try Arch.

    If you’re not comfortable administering your own system but you want a rolling release, try tumbleweed.

    If you don’t want a rolling release, try Fedora.

    I’d advise against Ubuntu, Debian, mint, and their derivatives. The only one I know of that doesn’t ship out of date packages is Debian unstable.

    If you hate yourself, try Gentoo lol

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    8 days ago

    I have used Pop! aon my 2015 MBpro, but performance wasn’t the best. Switching to Mint Xfce might be a better choice.