Nope. Too soon for that

not at all, it exactly the same process. Same level of difficulty. Given you do it on an intel Mac, Mx series are a royal pain

Very easy to flash Linux on an intel based Mac ;)

You’re right I got the latest and greatest kernel and that surely plays a factor

I guess PopOS performs like vanilla mint or like Ubuntu. NixOS feels very snappy even on Gnome on a 8gb machine from bloody 2012

No idea… a real bummer but I am grateful I could not get it to run smoothly as it pushed me to eventually land on NixOS

I guess there is just less bloat running in NixOS. But then again, the difference between Debian and NixOS is very subtle. Debian/LMDE run great on that hardware

It was updated before wiping yes. Those macs are abandonware, they stopped receiving firmware update a while ago. Followed no guide, the install wizard was very easy. All components worked out of the box

Totally wiped, yes

Your iMac will thank you for it ;)

If you own the domain you can do everything. iCloud has a very generous 50gb plan for 1€ per month

Yep, check Orion browser

LMDE is snappy as hell and stable as a rock

LMDE is fucking fantastic

You are probably the best candidate for something like LazyVim

Same…

Nice

Fedora might run well but LMDE will 100%

The battery is definitely replaceable but in latest models used to be glued on… I haven’t checked on the Apple silicon models… worse case the Apple Store can do it for you for 70/80€$ You can also remove the glue yourself, there must be an iFixit tutorial on YouTube for it

Nice