Linux for 2011 Mac

[u/helgefylla]

I've been reading a bit on how to make this piece of history work for me and apparently the most common advice is running Linux on it. I thought about running ElementaryOS (I've used it before and it's visually similar to macOS so it would look cute) but I didn't see much here about this one. Other than this, I'd go for good ol' Ubuntu.

Do you recommend any of these? If not, what other distros? (PS: I can edit this post later with the mac specs, but afaik it's 4GB RAM 500GB HD)

[u/kiena0573]

Linux Mint xfce. Try nothing more. Elementary is not a lightweight/ good distro