Last year, I wrote about how you can give new life to an old MacBook with Linux, specifically Elementary OS in that instance. Recently, I returned to that circa 2015 MacBook Air and discovered I had lost my login password. I downloaded the latest Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera release and could not get the live boot to recognize my Broadcom 4360 wireless chipset.
I still use a 2012 macbook with Linux
I was running arch for a while but recently gave fedora a try and even the “bloated” default install with GNOME runs pretty smooth on what’s now a close to a decade old machine.