My friend is finally willing to make the switch to Linux and wants me to help getting their laptop switched over. It's a very old Macbook. I think MacBook Air pro 15 or something? I unfortunately don't have the specs on hand at the moment but it's a very old model.

I was going to put Linux Mint on there since that's what I'm familiar with, but I'm not sure how well Ubuntu runs on older hardware. Any other distros I should consider? I should note that they're not a computer/tech person.

Edit: Macbook Air, 13 inch, from early 2015. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 Mb.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

I had 2015 macbook running Ubuntu with barely any support for WiFi drivers. $10 dongle would save a headache figuring out WiFi standards, with the caveat that Apple built theirs closed source. If it uses bcwa43 Ubuntu has a depreciated package that will supply the right drivers.

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