you certainly make a good point, and replacing the hardware has definitely been a popular suggestion. fwiw, this MB Air was just a free hand-me-down, so I’m specifically using it to distro hop and fart around with different Linux distros on old Mac hardware that I have no attachment to

Interesting. I actually tested Endeavour OS on this MB Air specifically (as well as my main MB Pro, but several years back) and the wifi was not natively supported out of the box. I was able to get it working by installing the broadcom module, but it still broke with the next kernel update. Another commenter has suggested replacing the broadcom driver with Intel iwd; I need to give that a shot. Endeavour seems a very approachable way to run Arch on MacBook hardware if I can solve this wifi problem more permanently.

I was not even aware there was an alternate driver option. I definitely need to look into that; thanks!

yeah, a common suggestion has been to just replace the hardware.

yeah, distros with LTS release cycles are exactly how to address this issue. I just wanna play more with rolling releases and atomic distros, lol

good to hear! my interest in Fedora was largely aimed at Bazzite, so I didn’t really test vanilla Fedora

I intend to get a Fairphone 5 or 6 and test-drive Ubuntu Touch on it, hoping to daily drive it… but it’s all theoretical at this point. If I can’t get a real Linux distro to do everything I want reliably, Lineage OS is my fallback plan. I believe in the Fairphone mission, so that’ll be my next hardware purchase either way

No thanks; I’ll stick with LibreOffice.

(sorry, I just couldn’t resist…)