I still love this machine. On MacOS, it still runs very well but is not supported anymore unfortunately. I have installed Mint on it and it was very sluggish. I then went for Ubuntu 22.04 and gnome 42.9 and it has been much better, keyboard, battery, trackpad and shortcuts have been supported mostly out of the box.

But it’s still fairly slow, and it seems I haven’t managed to use the discrete GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M). Gaming on this, even with a low spec game, is impossible. Granted, 8Gb of ram feels a bit tight nowadays but it certainly has the raw power!

Any other distro you’d recommend? Or perhaps a specific setup I could give a try to enjoy my MacBook at full power?

  • Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    11 hours ago

    Thanks! I have thought of giving a try to Bazzite but wasn’t sure I wouldn’t face the same problems with my GPU. You have the same MacBook as mine, with a discrete GPU, and you get the same snappiness as on MacOS?

    • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      Not quite the same actually; mine’s the mid-2012 MBP with a more generic Intel GPU. Yours is slightly better, but that Nvidia hardware is sometimes harder to drive properly on Linux. Bazzite should make that a breeze for you tho.