I'm thinking about what to do with this first Macbook. I think repurposing one for each of my kids is probably reasonable.So which distro should I use?Ubuntu is an obvious choice and one that I have a ton of familiarity with.I've used Manjaro XFCE edition with great success and my daughter has played with it a little already, too.I'm also looking right now at Elementary OS and MX Linux.#macbook - https://social.linux.pizza/tags/macbook #linux - https://social.linux.pizza/tags/linux
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GrooveStomp
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I've briefly used Elementary and it looks nice visually; but I wonder if it has lower compatibility with some software as a result of the push towards a unified visual identity? I have no basis for asking that, just curious.
khm
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groovestomp - https://social.linux.pizza/@groovestomp Each of my kids has a remote learning workstation thanks to the plague. They've been running stock Fedora/GNOME, but as most third-party software targets Ubuntu I tried that out. Ubuntu's reliance on Snap introduces a moderate performance penalty, so I'm leaning toward a switch to Debian testing with an Ubuntu chroot for the proprietary educational/videoconferencing software. The hardest part will be getting them off Minecraft and onto Minetest due to network effects.
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Cryptolibertarian Catgirl
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@khm@mastodon.sdf.org @groovestomp@social.linux.pizza If you're using things which demand vanilla Ubuntu but don't want to incur the performance penalty exacted by snap, I can readily recommend Pop!_OS
khm
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allison - https://blob.cat/users/allison groovestomp - https://social.linux.pizza/@groovestomp I'm gonna put this on my laptop and if it displeases me I'll whine to you personally
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Cryptolibertarian Catgirl
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@khm@mastodon.sdf.org @groovestomp@social.linux.pizza Also, Nvidia. It's the only distro I've found to work out of the box with it