Just make sure that you have a bootable macOS USB installer so you can perform a clean install of macOS if you find Linux is not your cup of tea (make sure the macOS USB installer does boot). Plus you should be able to test them out from their bootable USB installers since I believe they each include a "Live Mode" where you can test drive the OS without installing, however, it will run very slow from a USB stick. Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and Linux Mint are three good choices that should be easy to install and just work on a Mac. ![]() Linux is not for everyone and it does require you to learn a new OS, but Linux is a great way of keeping an old computer working for many years. The supported Linux Distributions include Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, LinuxMint, Arch Linux, Chakra Linux and many more. Linux includes lots of free open source apps including LibreOffice which is an office suite similar to MS Office. It supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Mac OS X 10.7+ and almost all 32 and 64 bit Debian, RPM and Pacman based Linux Distributions. Once macOS is no longer a viable option for you on this iMac, you may want to consider installing Linux on the iMac which will allow you to use the most recent versions of the popular browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, and Vivaldi. Unfortunately Firefox has stopped supporting macOS 10.11. ![]() You can, however, use a third party browser such as Vivaldi and perhaps even Google Chrome (I don't know what the OS requirement is for Chrome). ![]() ![]() If you have the Early 2009 iMac, then you are stuck at macOS 10.11. If you have the Late 2009 iMac, then you should be able to run macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
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