As per title, I am mind-blown by the speed and stability of NixOS on this “relic” in IT terms… On this machine i tested:

Distro Performance
Fedora MEGA slow
Ubuntu OKish
LDME Fast
Debian Fast
NixOS VERY Fast

And the best thing is that I can bring this config with me on any computer! Oh boy, I think i have fallen in love with NixOS

    • Loucypher@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      25 days ago

      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

    • TBi@lemmy.world
      1·
      24 days ago

      I run fedora on a 2009 thinkpad and it’s fast. I’m surprised NixOS is that much faster.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    3·
    26 days ago

    Did you leave a MacOS partition for firmware upgrades, or just make sure it was fully updated before wiping?

    Does all the hardware work? Which guide did you use for prep and install?

    • Loucypher@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      25 days ago

      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

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
        2·
        25 days ago

        That’s great. I have a few Macs about that age, and I was really hoping to revive them with Linux.

  • satanmat@lemmy.world
    2·
    26 days ago

    Nice!

    I’ve got a similar iMac I’m looking to Linux as it is well past getting any more macOS updates.

    Did you wipe macOS?!or did you bootcamp?

    Thanks

    • Loucypher@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      25 days ago

      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

  • Avieshek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    I have a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro, got 16GB RAM but still a spinning hard drive. How does it compare to Pop!_OS?

    • Loucypher@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      25 days ago

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

      • Avieshek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        24 days ago

        Would you like the point some differences like inteface (UI-UX), driver support, features, performance etc?

  • Wooki@lemmy.world
    1·
    22 days ago

    Yay welcome to the club. Now for home manager, flakes, and modules. Its awesome