Loucypher

Running even Ventura on a ~~2021~~ 2012 mac air is… MEGA slow

it was exactly flashing a windows laptop, no difference whatsoever :)

if you wanted to run macOS on this then yes, it would definitely be ewaste

a simple install of the good old LMDE, everything worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box. It runs even smoother than vanilla Debian

XFce makes them snappy like when they where purchased back in the days?

At this point you could have moved them to Mint LMDE, which has GUI tools to to pretty much anything, and it is essentially Debian with Cinnamon and some extra tools built by the Mint team

Unless you install Chrome OS Flex. If we leave aside the privacy aspect, of course

Yup

Micro$oft Teams

+3

Session?

Run Tailscale on it and transform it in your own personal VPN ;)