I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.
She’s ended up with her same 7 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.
This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.
Go for tumbleweed, it’s supporting wide range of architectures (including even powerpc so you can still use powerpc macs) and it’s rolling release distro on top of that
Rolling release with binaries and gui installer (user friendlier than other rolling release distros), and without configuration troubles, other distro with precompiled binaries and rolling release i know it’s nix os and there’s learning curve in configuration of system that tumbleweed doesn’t have, also there’s arch btw, i used it for few years as daily driver but i myself borked many installations of it because of aur and pile of installed software (dependency hell)
I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.
She’s ended up with her same 7 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.
This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.
Go for tumbleweed, it’s supporting wide range of architectures (including even powerpc so you can still use powerpc macs) and it’s rolling release distro on top of that
I’ve been on fedora for quite awhile, what makes tumbleweed better or unique? might try it sometime
Rolling release with binaries and gui installer (user friendlier than other rolling release distros), and without configuration troubles, other distro with precompiled binaries and rolling release i know it’s nix os and there’s learning curve in configuration of system that tumbleweed doesn’t have, also there’s arch btw, i used it for few years as daily driver but i myself borked many installations of it because of aur and pile of installed software (dependency hell)
Are you talking about OpenSUSE?