vlad

7y

Need help/advise: 💻 Anyone's experience with Linux on MacBooks - I've had a lot of tried, including Arch, Ubuntu, Cent and probably more I can't remember.

🔴The issue is always the Desktop manager / UI / Window manager: either it's too 👹 ugly, or too heavy(read Ubuntu default).

Want to find the ultimate compromise with reasonable support for hardware, yet with high usability.

Things like multi-touch gestures are a bonus🔥(I know there's extra bins I can install for that)

I don't mind something more to configure, but would rather stick with apt-get and similar rather than having to manually build everything 😉

As you probably understood by now - I need something close to MacOS yet Linux based 😎

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linux on macbook

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PrivateGER

16584

7y

Try Xubuntu.
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liammartens

4468

7y

Try Deepin or Pop!OS
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hackerup

613

7y

Lubuntu works for me
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olback

10794

7y

Macs don't have touch...? 🤔
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olback

10794

7y

@d3vnu11 like 2-finger scroll and zoom? Doesn't all modern distros support that?
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C0D4

66902

7y

I’m with @liammartens
If you want something linux based that has a beautiful UI then deepin is the way to go.
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CamelCase001

636

7y

If it's about the Desktop, you shouldn't switch the Distro, but the Desktop Environment. Check out the following ones:

1. xfce (also my choice)
2. mate
3. kde
4. gnome
5. lxde or lxqt
6. budgy
7. cinnamon
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vlad

127

7y

@binop #1, 3, 5 are the ugly / cumbersome ones from what I remember. I wouldn't mind it on a desktop maybe, but not on a MacBook- will look at the others

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