As per title, have you experienced any distro on this device? Currently torn between mint/Debian or just vanilla Debian
anything that isnt very hard to run should be fine. ive personally ran a distro on an early 2012/2013 mac and it worked just fine. forgot what one but i know it was a very common mainstream one. i also somehow got kali on it so that was interesting too. if you want something easy and simple you should probably use mint or debian if they support imacs, otherwise? its really down to personal pref
Yeah, the idea is something simple and stable. Stable because I don’t want to babysit the OS (I already do that at work), and simple so my wife can also use it in case of need. She only know windows so anything the comes close in terms of UI is “ok” for her. The real choice was between KDE or cinnamon. Eventually opted for Mint/Debian
I have Arch on a 2013 mbp and it has served very well for years. I think I had to do a little work getting the backlight controls bound to some hotkey combos, but that might depend more on DE than distro. I'm probably going to put NixOS on it, since I'm not using it as my work laptop anymore. Use whatever you want! Debian is always a pleasure, too, in my experience.
I can't speak for your exact model, but I'm running kubuntu on my old 2012 MacBook Pro (with an upgraded SSD and maxed-out 16 GB RAM). My daily driver is a desktop, but I spend almost as much time on the laptop. It's a wonderful experience for my use case, and all the hardware is supported "out of the box".
Maybe try distro hopping a bit to see which experience is best for your usage. Have fun with it!
Yes, I also had a positive experience with Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook Air :)
