I’m sitting here in 2026 runnin Fedora 43 on a laptop from 2016, and honestly? It’s smoother than it has any right to be. My entire workflow lives in Brave and Obsidian, and this "old" i5 handles it like a champ. There is something deeply satisfying about taking a "boring" enterprise machine, slapping GNOME on it, and watching it run circles around modern hardware,It’s actually fuckin depressing that a 10-year-old laptop has better utility than 99% of the "pro" hardware being sold today.have a native Ethernet port and a full SD slot. Imagine that shit No $60 Amazon adapters dangling off the side like life support just to get a stable connection 🙄that's what I call good hardware built to last.#r/Linuxmasterrace
Hell yeah! I'm typing this on a 2013 i7 Macbook air running LMDE 13 and it runs like a dream.
I’ve got one of those. So nice to this day. That touchpad 🥰
Wait you can run Linux on a macbook? 🤔
Yes on the intel MacBooks :) I put cachyOS on mine and even though it used to be an overheating laptop the fans don't even start. Processor stays at around 40-50C.
For those wondering about newer Silicon Macs, there's Asahi Linux.
Even the apple silicon ones can run linux. The only things that don't work are thunderbolt (but you can still get USB4 from the same port) and fingerprint reader.
https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/
I'd even go so far as to say Mac OS is more "polite" about dual booting than Windows is. It doesn't overwrite your bootloader every update, and uses the more sane UTC for the realtime clock.