Linux on my Mac, part 2 (05.27.2020)

After trying MX Linux for a few days on my Mac, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I liked Manjaro better and wanted to finally put it on my Macbook Pro (2010). I was reluctant to leave the Ubuntu / Debian world but Manjaro is just so damn elegant, fast and has so many software options.

If I’m being honest with myself, I just wanted a good looking distro that I could play my 90’s video games on and use a Microsoft Office alternative for school.

My top distro picks so far are:

  1. Manjaro (Arch based)
  2. MX Linux (Debian based)
  3. Zorin OS (Ubuntu based)
  4. Xubuntu (Ubuntu)

The XFCE desktop performs the best on my 5 and 10 year old computers.

I was curious so I tried the live versions of the other major distros:

Fedora: Unity desktop in live version, nice, but nothing “called” to me.

OpenSUSE: Good, but I didn’t like visual software installer.

Gentoo: Elegant desktop in live DVD but nothing called to me.

Slackware: I couldn’t figure out default login / password, so I gave up.

My mind just kept coming back to Manjaro… so that’s what I finally installed.

On my old Macbook Pro I had success with burned install DVD-roms and limited success with Live Flashdrives.

I think I have satisfied my distrohopping curiosity and I am going to stick with Manjaro for a while.