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What distro works well for a 2012 Macbook Pro?
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I run Pop!_OS 22.04 on a 2015 MBP and it works perfectly (except the camera). If a 2012 can't handle Pop!_OS, you could try Lubuntu or Debian 12 with XFCE.
I used to use Pop! on my desktop for years, until an update they did a few years ago I didn't like, and I switched out of the distro. Never gave it another chance, but maybe I can revisit it for this mbp.
Do you know if you are able to map and do all the multi-touch gestures on it fine? And have you tried remapping some of the keys with the CMD button?
I haven't had the need to remap keys so I cannot answer that, but I do use multi-touch gestures without a problem. I do not know if the options are as diverse as the ones OSX offers since I left Mac years ago, but they are there
+1 for Pop. I've just done this. I had to run updates plugged into the cat 6 to get wireless, apart from that, everything just worked.