Thanks for this! I keep going back and forth on this. The very first article/tutorial I found was about Fedora on exactly the model of MacBook I have. I’m still considering it simply because I know it works based on this persons experience, but if I recall correctly the Wi-Fi didn’t work out of the box and some configuration was needed.
Awesome! I was just reading about this. Pretty sure the port is there, ill just need to dig out a cable :) Thank you.
This is great info thank you! Dumb question: do you have any issues with the cd drive?
Does anyone have a recommendation for distros that would work well on a 2011 MacBook Pro? It’s in decent shape and as far as I know there’s nothing wrong with it. I figured I could use this as both a learning opportunity for myself and a way to give the laptop a second life. I’ve done some research the past few months and there seems to be some conflicting opinions out there and also some of the posts/tutorials are a few years old so I’m not sure if anything has changed. I’ve generally seen that Ubuntu, Mint and Arch would be good and the processes seem straight forward. I’d really appreciate any suggestions before I pull the trigger.
I’m still learning but what got me hooked (and still hooks me) is finding tasks that I would like to make easier for myself (changing file names, outputting a simple but interesting data analysis to a file), general amusement (creating a list of curse words and the looping through the list and printing f strings with them), visualizing data. Keep it really simple. I would recommend messing around with little projects, googling how to do stuff but absolutely intersperse that with taking the time to learn why things are doing what they are or how they are doing it.
