Jesus Christ!

What happens when you get in? You need to let them access everything ?

Nope. That is just for T2 macs. Anything prior installs like on any PCs

Out of the box brother, go with no worries

In France they don’t care unless you pirate French content

Yes indeed, but only because it is not on the Nix repositories yet

Nope. Too soon for that

not at all, it exactly the same process. Same level of difficulty. Given you do it on an intel Mac, Mx series are a royal pain

Very easy to flash Linux on an intel based Mac ;)

You’re right I got the latest and greatest kernel and that surely plays a factor

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

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

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

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

Totally wiped, yes

If you own the domain you can do everything. iCloud has a very generous 50gb plan for 1€ per month

Yep, check Orion browser

LMDE is snappy as hell and stable as a rock

LMDE is fucking fantastic

You are probably the best candidate for something like LazyVim