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?
Back in the day I used to game hard as fuck on the 650m on my 2012 MBP lol
I have Fedora on mine now and it works great once you figure out how to make the wifi and graphics drivers play
Definitely ungrade to 16 gb RAM if you haven’t already. DDR3 is stupid cheap