Linux distro suggestion for retina macbook pro late 2013

[rachislenska]

I would like to get some suggestions regarding this. Got my new M2 air 8/512/16 model some days back and that is obviously going to be my daily driver moving forward. However my old late 2013 macbook pro 13 inch is still working fine apart from the fact that Big sur has made it incredibly slow. I don’t want to retire it completely. Apart from damage to hdmi port due to a fall there are no other big issues.
But the Big sur is too much for the old hardware, and I am noticing the slowness especially after using the M2 air.
Please give me some light weight Linux distro suggestions.
It’s a 4gb ram/i5 model. And Iam not hugely tech savvy to basically set up an OS from scratch. Something that needs a simple installing would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.

 

[velocityg4]

Ubuntu would be one of the easier ones to install. Lubuntu if you want the lighter weight version.

 

[rachislenska]

thanks for the suggestion. will try Lubuntu. Have tried ubuntu long time back in my old windows pc and it wasn’t a good experience. I intend to use it for casual browsing and minimal word processing only.

 

[velocityg4]

thanks for the suggestion. will try Lubuntu. Have tried ubuntu long time back in my old windows pc and it wasn’t a good experience. I intend to use it for casual browsing and minimal word processing only.

Can’t say about Lubuntu. I’ve used Ubuntu some. Lubuntu is just Ubuntu with they eye candy and some other resource hogs removed.

As far as Linux goes. It’s one of the less painful ones to setup and use. When you boot off the installer. You can just skip the install and try out running it off the flash drive.

It’s still Linux though. If you want to use a program not preinstalled or in their repository. You’re going to be fiddling with the terminal.