"Best," somewhat turnkey, user-friendly distro for a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro
Thinking nothing more wonky than mint/pop!/bazzite/elementary. I know there is never “one” perfect one but feeling like trying something new on this machine that’s at least somewhat push button. Since it no longer receive regular updates from Apple I just want to keep this machine available for use when needed.
I’m pretty comfortable on the above ones I mentioned. I’m not a coder/engineer so I tend to lean heavily on flatpaks and such, though if I have to go into the terminal occasionally I can usually poke my way around
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Veterans Affairs reverses course on large-scale layoffs
‘The department says it is on pace to reduce its total staff by nearly 30,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year through retirements, attrition and deferred resignations after previously saying it would need to cull 83,000.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7939775 "[WashPost headline]
Veterans Affairs reverses course on large-scale layoffs
‘The department says it is on pace to reduce its total staff by nearly 30,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year through retirements, attrition and deferred resignations after previously saying it would need to cull 83,000.")
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in reply to LandedGentry • • •I think driver wise Linux is almost all the same as they are all in the kernel
I would recommend giving bazzite a go. But if performance is an issue then mint with xfce might be the sensible choice
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in reply to RedBauble • • •The only problem I’ve had was the Mac not going asleep properly, and immediately waking up. But that’s something I encountered on other distros including Mint also.
Found a fix for it.
Ctrl key hasn’t been a problem. Often on many distros the old hybrid Nvidia graphics and the old Broadcom card were both problems. But ok on Mint and EOS.
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in reply to LandedGentry • • •If you're comfortable administering your own system, try Arch.
If you're not comfortable administering your own system but you want a rolling release, try tumbleweed.
If you don't want a rolling release, try Fedora.
I'd advise against Ubuntu, Debian, mint, and their derivatives. The only one I know of that doesn't ship out of date packages is Debian unstable.
If you hate yourself, try Gentoo lol
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in case you can't stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you're set.
two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won't come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won't wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I'll dig up the the script.
stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.
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