My friend is finally willing to make the switch to Linux and wants me to help getting their laptop switched over. It’s a very old Macbook. I think MacBook Air pro 15 or something? I unfortunately don’t have the specs on hand at the moment but it’s a very old model.
I was going to put Linux Mint on there since that’s what I’m familiar with, but I’m not sure how well Ubuntu runs on older hardware. Any other distros I should consider? I should note that they’re not a computer/tech person.
Edit: Macbook Air, 13 inch, from early 2015. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 Mb.
I usually go with Kubuntu.
Set up flatpak, share internet from my phone via usb to install broadcom wifi drivers, and modify the KDE desktop to work more like MacOS (add top bar with search widget and alt menu, turn bottom taskbar into a dock, move window buttons to top left).
Hand it back to the post-MacOS-user. No complaints so far. In fact one came back with another Mac and asked me to do it again.