But you will get further better results by also switching to Ubuntu, as well as better security. The macOS branch is now closed off to you and Windows 10 doesn't play all that nice with 2011 MBPs, so some flavour of Linux would be your best option.Īs the current top comment points out, you will get better results just by switching to an SSD and 8GB of RAM. While an SSD and 8GB of RAM may make High Sierra usable, you want to be using the latest OS of whatever branch you choose for security reasons. If I'm not really doing anything I'm floating at around 3GB used in GNOME with several Chrome tabs, Deluge, Telegram, and a few other odds and ends open. While you can probably get away with 4GB of RAM, that's kind of pushing the limit of being comfortable.
Once you've started using one, using a computer without one will feel broken even on a fresh format. Instead of waiting 6 seconds for calculator to open in High Sierra, it'll be closer to 4 seconds in Ubuntu (pulled these numbers out of my ass because I can't quite remember what using a spinning hard disk as an OS drive was like in macOS). You'll get about the same performance doing actual things once the things are open (some things do have better performance, Minecraft for example) sometimes you will get better performance just because Linux. I've read in the comments below that Ubuntu isn't going to run much better than macOS and this is half-true. It's much faster running Ubuntu than macOS 10.13.x.
It's actually my main work computer or on-site jobs. I am currently running Ubuntu 19.10 on my 2011 MBP.
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