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"Best," somewhat turnkey, user-friendly distro for a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro (lemmy.zip)
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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

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[–] RedBauble@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.works 1 points 1 week 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.