I've just put it on an old 2011 Macbook Air that was gifted to me, only because of how nicely it seems to work on it it (speed and stability).
By no means is it my "daily driver" desktop in the cryptocave.
But it is my lightweight, less bloated, "working" distro that I take on the go with me when Im not planning on doing anything advanced.
Very interested in this discussion.
Nice! Mint and Zorin are both great for reviving old hardware like that! It's hard to pick my preference between those two haha
Mint is great for my daily driver which is a powerful gaming PC.
I dont need all that bloat on a slim notebook like a MacBook Air.
Althought Mint works faster on it than MacOS ever did, Manjaro is booting much faster.
I have never tried Zorin but I will have a look at it.
Right now I am installing Arch for my first time to see how minimal a system I can get, what extra customisation I have access to and will it make a difference in responsiveness and boot.
I'm still not sure what I want to use on my PC but Mint is a strong consideration. I've heard Manjaro is great despite the developers being lazy on some stuff outside of the distro.
In general, I hope I can settle on a distro for my main PC by next year; I can't afford to be down and out for a week every time I distro hop haha
Agreed!
I have about 7 "garbage" laptops in my cryptocave that were donated to me. This makes distro hopping fun, easy and stress-free.
Learn multiple distros at the same time without touching your main machine.
Other than that, you can always make great use of VIRTUALBOX!
I've been using VMs and Ventoy to test distros but it hasn't helped because there are many distros that I really like, and none of them fit 100% to my use case haha
I felt the same way until this experience with Arch.
Arch lets you build the system that fits 100% for your use case without anything else!
I never understood this until now.
I definitely get the appeal but I don't think it's for me at this point in time haha. I'm still reasonably new to Linux, my main PC still uses Windows, so building an Arch system is probably not the best idea for me at this point in time 😅
