In my experiemce it’s not. Unless you’ve not got Mac hardware, in which case it’s your only choice from those two options.
Now, how is Mint better than macOS on older Macs?
Well. I used OCLP to run Sequoia on my 2014 Mac mini. It ran, but it was a dog egg. The fan was basically a continuous jet engine. So I used it to dip my toes in Linux and put Mint on it. 100% improvement. Mint doesn’t mind only having 8Gb RAM, and doesn’t really give a shit what it runs. It’s modern and up to date and not growing new security holes with every month that passes. Running Mint, that little computer has become the hub of my homelab. Sure, there’s better hardware for the task, but the best gear is the gear you’ve got, right?
However, if my M2 MacBook could run Mint, I’d still be running Sequoia on it, because there’s a swathe of shit that macOS does out of the box that it’s taken me a year of using Linux to give up trying to emulate with any level of success.
But not macOS 26 though. Oh Jesus fuck no. I’ve tried it on the M1 mini I have and it’s fucking awful.
In my experiemce it’s not. Unless you’ve not got Mac hardware, in which case it’s your only choice from those two options.
Now, how is Mint better than macOS on older Macs?
Well. I used OCLP to run Sequoia on my 2014 Mac mini. It ran, but it was a dog egg. The fan was basically a continuous jet engine. So I used it to dip my toes in Linux and put Mint on it. 100% improvement. Mint doesn’t mind only having 8Gb RAM, and doesn’t really give a shit what it runs. It’s modern and up to date and not growing new security holes with every month that passes. Running Mint, that little computer has become the hub of my homelab. Sure, there’s better hardware for the task, but the best gear is the gear you’ve got, right?
However, if my M2 MacBook could run Mint, I’d still be running Sequoia on it, because there’s a swathe of shit that macOS does out of the box that it’s taken me a year of using Linux to give up trying to emulate with any level of success.
But not macOS 26 though. Oh Jesus fuck no. I’ve tried it on the M1 mini I have and it’s fucking awful.