Hey guys, I have a macbook pro 2019 (intel architecture) that my company gave me for work (I do software development). They allow me to work on linux if I want to, and recent developments at the company have made me more inclined.

I spent a lot of time on Arch Linux on my personal computer a while back, and I love the customizability of the system, the user repo, and the package manager, but I definitely had some issues with stability from time to time.

Essentially I want something customizable, specifically where I have the freedom to mess with things like my window manager and compositor if I want to. I used to use i3 and I don’t know if that’s the move any more with recent developments in wayland.

So to end my meandering:

  1. I’m hoping for some recommendations on distros
  2. Some information about HiDPI displays and utilizing multiple displays with different DPIs
  3. Some recommendations on WMs, especially tiling ones
  • danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Mint ran fine in my 2015 MacBook pro and I’m running Linux Mint Debian Edition on my Mac Mini 2014.

    It does use X11 not Wayland but everything worked fine, except the webcam and possibly the SD card reader, which is normal on Mac’s running anything other than macos

    If you think you’ll be doing zoom calls etc, leave it running macos and just run Linux in a VM.