noice! I guess you had to setup the wifi drivers while connected on ethernet, right?

i am not expecting any SSD to be worn out unless the previous owner was into heavy workloads, which isn’t the case for a lot of mac users. You can technically write over the whole SSD hundreds of thousands of time before losing some capacity. Assuming the OS runs on BTRS you’ll be fine as the file system will auto flag bad sectors.

thanks, yes I did swap the numbers, this machine is from 2012

even if they cannot be upgraded they are incredibly well built (excluding those with butterfly keyboards, steer away from those) and will likely outlive any PC you might have from the same year

did not test with classic Mint but LMDE has been rock solid with WiFi

it you are looking for an OS that just runs, doesn’t receive tons of updates and stay stable as a rock… LMDE will make you fall in love

none my dude, it installs just like it would install on a windows machine. the CPU is just a basic intel i7. It would be a different story if this was one of the newest M1x macs…

Running even Ventura on a 2021 2012 mac air is… MEGA slow

it was exactly flashing a windows laptop, no difference whatsoever :)

if you wanted to run macOS on this then yes, it would definitely be ewaste

a simple install of the good old LMDE, everything worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box. It runs even smoother than vanilla Debian

XFce makes them snappy like when they where purchased back in the days?

At this point you could have moved them to Mint LMDE, which has GUI tools to to pretty much anything, and it is essentially Debian with Cinnamon and some extra tools built by the Mint team

Unless you install Chrome OS Flex. If we leave aside the privacy aspect, of course

Yup

Micro$oft Teams

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