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Distro for 2012 MacBook Pro Retina (15 inch) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I still love this machine. On MacOS, it still runs very well but is not supported anymore unfortunately. I have installed Mint on it and it was very sluggish. I then went for Ubuntu 22.04 and gnome 42.9 and it has been much better, keyboard, battery, trackpad and shortcuts have been supported mostly out of the box.

But it's still fairly slow, and it seems I haven't managed to use the discrete GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M). Gaming on this, even with a low spec game, is impossible. Granted, 8Gb of ram feels a bit tight nowadays but it certainly has the raw power!

Any other distro you'd recommend? Or perhaps a specific setup I could give a try to enjoy my MacBook at full power?

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Bazzite will not help, ur bottleneck is old nvidia which not supported anymore by nvidia, so u stuck to Linux kernel 6.8 and nvidia-driver-470, u also need MBPfan daemon without it cooler not working properly u will overheat all time https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan

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