gurupanguji
I love giving life to old computers. Over the weekend, I got my son a used M1 Macbook Air and so a 2014 intel based 13" Macbook Pro that was flashed with Chrome OS Flex became available to tinker. I immediately got started setting up omarchy on it.
Honestly, it's been a lot of fun setting it up. There are many things I don't like about DHH. However, we do share some similar sentiments and I guess tastes around how to setup a linux distro.
I've been tinkering with linux distros since 2002 when I got my very first computer.
This is _by far_ the best installation experience I've ever had. It also strikes a strong balance between pre configuration and setting up and starting you with something useful. The biggest problems with setting up linux distros in a mac before this has been that Mac based firmware was typically not considered kosher as part of the open-source drivers. So you always had to start with some fiddly system, figure out a way to connect to ethernet and then deal with wifi drivers. Those were the worst.
They were fantastic to learn about the linux system and I won't regret spending hours trying to debug pulse audio and broadcom wifi drivers. However, those are not necessary to take a system from useless to working.
Chrome OS Flex was also a great way to bring this macbook pro back to life as apple EOL'd this a long time ago. However, omarchy seems to have even gotten around some of the weirdness of chrome OS Flex and its high cpu usage when typing too.
Overall, if your goal is to breathe life into some old intel hardware, this is the way to go now.
Highly recommend.