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(Almost) ready to turn my beloved MacBook Air 2013 - which is gathering dust on a shelf - into a # Linux laptop (mastodon.social)
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(Almost) ready to turn my beloved MacBook Air 2013 - which is gathering dust on a shelf - into a #Linux laptop.Only problem: multiple people might have swayed me to pick Arch Linux as the distro. #ArchLinux!!! I know NOTHING but from all the Linux memes I've seen over the years, I've always been intimidated by it.Debating whether to go with it or #Mint or #Ubuntu. Thoughts?Edit / update: it's now a toss-up between Mint and Fedora. I may try Arch on my Raspi4#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (5 children)

@_elena I ran Ubuntu on my Air quite happily.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    @Edent thanks Terence! Did you have problems getting your Wifi to work?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    @_elena I can't find anything in my notes about that. Sorry! I think the hardest part was getting it to dual book - but I recall the hardware working just fine.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    @Edent got it! I'm not going to create a dual boot, but just wipe the drive and have Linux on it...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    @_elena @Edent Just a heads up, make sure to use your macbook air or another mac to make a macos installer USB before you install any linux distro in case you ever want to go backApple, being apple, doesn't let just anyone just download an ISO, the only officially supported routes to create recovery media require using a mac with a functional install of macos

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    @_elena @Edent Several of the Linux distros like MX, & probably Fedora or Ubuntu will handle drivers for Mac if you install with ethernet connection during install process. Some installs you have to be sure and use correct checkboxes, some you need to copy drivers from Mac OS before upgrade or get them elsewhere. Usually it is just drivers for Wifi, bluetooth, and sometimes audio because they are proprietary w Mac & some distros strict about default being no proprietary software just FOSS

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