Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has MacBook Pro from 2012 which has already been upgraded with more Ram and an SSD.

From what I understand, her OS (Catalina) has reached end of life in 2022 and doesn’t get any support from Apple anymore.

As that machine works perfectly, what should she do?

I hate Apple products (even if it’s painful for me to say that they’re good) and I’m a Linux enthusiast, so I’d tell her to install Fedora Asahi, but I wanted to know if the Apple enthusiast crowd had a better idea.

My girlfriend isn’t geeky at all (despite her geeky glasses) and she would want to stay in the safe environment provided by an Apple OS. But we also don’t want to replace that powerful machine as we hate programmed obsoletism.

  • Randy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You have a few options:

    You can use OPENCORE legacy patcher and this will upgrade to the last MacOS version or You can install windows

    I did both on a 12 year old macbook and i must say that windows never worked so smooth on any device i ever owned.

    Or

    Install a Apple like Linux distro but it will be a “harder” learning curve

    Good luck. If you need some help, let me know :)