MacBook Pro, Core i5, 2.8 GHz (I5-4308U), model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13", MacBookPro11,1, RAM 8 GB, VRAM 1.5 GB, Storage 512 GB SSD

vlc, tor, brave, firefox… are apps that I cannot download. Neither can I use mac’s app store, because software is too old.

What would be the point of not nuking this OS X?

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I would personally install Linux Mint on it, or any other modern distro. That’s a CPU that has ~3000 points on Passmark, which means that most DEs work fine with it, but I think that Cinnamon would shine the most with it. I personally use XFce/Mate for anything between 500 and 1200 points, Cinnamon from 1200+, KDE 2000+, Gnome 2500+. I use LXQT or a WM on anything below 500. I “save” old computers of friends or cousins by installing Linux on their old machines, and that’s been my experience so far.