Maybe I’m lucky but my 2017-era MacBook Air (7,2) with i7 chip and 8GB RAM works great with Ubuntu. When I tried Debian I had to do the separate broadcom driver install and I didn’t really like Debian anyway and so went back to Ubuntu (now on 24.04.3 LTS) and this machine does everything I want/need it to do “out of the box.”
Maybe I’m lucky but my 2017-era MacBook Air (7,2) with i7 chip and 8GB RAM works great with Ubuntu. When I tried Debian I had to do the separate broadcom driver install and I didn’t really like Debian anyway and so went back to Ubuntu (now on 24.04.3 LTS) and this machine does everything I want/need it to do “out of the box.”