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What other distros should I try out on this thing?
Edit: thanks for you suggestions comrades, I think I'll give KDE Plasma a shot first and then try out each other suggestion :kim-salute:
When I was distro hopping half a year ago, I did some tests and it turns out the only DEs that consume less resources than KDE Plasma are Xfce and other lightweight DEs like LXQt and Trinity.
I’ve enjoyed Pop OS. There are only 2 annoying things I hate about it.
- You can’t disable the default superkey search function. I have arc menu installed so I have to do some fiddling in the config file
- The pop shop is slow as hell and sometimes just crashes entirely
They also guide you through a lot of things on their site and setup, but I wish they also added some instructions to the custom install. It took me like 2 days looking up various tutorials on manual disk partitioning before I understood what I needed to do. But other than that, pretty good. They have trackpad gestures automatically setup which mint doesn’t have ASFAIK.
All you youngens using derivatives of derivatives. Why? Just install Debian, that shit's been fine for 30 years.
Mint is a good daily runner, it's what I use on my workshop computer. For an old MacBook, I think Pop!_OS will also give you good out-of-the-box support for your trackpad, which is not a given for some distros.
i use endeavourOS with KDE and i think i like it more than Mint (which i also really liked)
i didnt even know people installed other OS on macbooks
I've been running Ubuntu on a ThinkPad with no issues at all for the last few years, but before that I was running Mint on an Asus netbook and it worked pretty well.
I've been primarily a Mint user since whenever it was Ubuntu switched to Unity. I know they stopped using it again but I liked Mint enough to stay. I do occasionally try out other distros on my old computer though. Manjaro has been a favorite of those.
It's fun to just put a random distro on a jump drive and play around with it. I've never found anything I liked enough to install over Mint but it's still cool to see what people are doing out there.
Gentoo on older machines can get awfully tedious unless you're committed to being one of those Suckless people. It is dope as hell though.
After 25 years of using linux on a bunch of platforms I just put Debian by default.
It’s good and easy to use.
I like antiX. I've used xubuntu before and liked the old xfce UI. Now I'm on Trisquel. Not sure if these have PowerPC versions
Thank you for the suggestion comrade, I'll look into Trisquel, really blown away by the sheer amount of choices in distros.
distrowatch.com is a cool place to see the thousands of weird and wild distros there are. I'd recommend trying out one with each major desktop environment/window manager if you're just dipping your toes in. That's where the biggest changes from a user's perspective will usually come.
Pop works great on MacBook. I'd avoid Fedora. Linus Torvalds runs fedora on a MacBook, but I had issues with it not recovering well from sleep and losing its wifi signal until reboot with it.
