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    I Need Help-A Problem With Installing Linux Mint On a 2012 MacBook Air

    Way to be :geek: Welcome to MX. I don’t recall if that year has the ports directly on the logic board or if they’re on their own riser. Either way, if they don’t work in MX I bet there was something in them and hit or dropped yanking the joints loose. If you are handy with a soldering iron, I...
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    I Need Help-A Problem With Installing Linux Mint On a 2012 MacBook Air

    I use thunderbird client which is connected to my gmail accounts. To download it, search for "MX Package Installer" and open it. In the upper hand corner, there is a search window - type Thunderbird there and it should pop up as an option to install. It should look like this. Being that you...
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    I Need Help-A Problem With Installing Linux Mint On a 2012 MacBook Air

    The usb don’t work at all in Catalina? As in if you plug a usb mouse or kb or flash drive - they all don’t work? Have you reset SMC? PRAM?
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    I Need Help-A Problem With Installing Linux Mint On a 2012 MacBook Air

    I think if you were to tier distros from ease of use, most would rate MX as a mid tier distro but I have to tell you, I think you would do fine with MX+XFCE out of the box. I think as you’re new to Linux, it’s more important for you to have a good first install experience. It really is a PITA...
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    I Need Help-A Problem With Installing Linux Mint On a 2012 MacBook Air

    If you have another Mac, you could use internet sharing and connect a thunderbolt cable between the two or if it’s older, a cat cable to a thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter plugged into the 2012mb - something like that It’s very likely that Mint doesn’t have the Broadcom WiFi drivers in its...
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    Backlighting a transparent powerbook trackball via GPIO or Berg power on a blue scsi

    I think that is pretty cool. Translucent Fruit colors? :)
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    New Defrag Utility in 2026

    I’d call it Borky. :geek:
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    Hello from an SF Bay Area collector—and an introduction to Dave’s Computer Museum

    I beat the Dave Bot! :D Such a fun website. The window animations are especially so cool :)
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    eMac swivel Base

    That’s somewhere Apple hasn’t really gone and I wish they would because I think it would look really nice. I think the combination of a beautiful oiled wood grain with the poly white would look really sharp.
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    eMac swivel Base

    What do you think is the cost of your stand part as-is? Really nice work BTW. I love these DIY printed solutions - so great to see.
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    G5tember 2026

    I think they make solid era gaming boxes. All of my favorite games from around the TOTC fly on mine :)
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    What did you do to your computer today?

    Today I was able to get Jan.AI working on my kids 2009 24" imac. Jan.AI is an open-source, privacy-focused desktop application that lets you run large language models completely offline on your own computer which is pretty cool I think. There were some issues however - primarily with the super...
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    VCFMW 2026 Should Be Sweet!

    Cool, when I do get the opportunity to go, I know where I’m eating then :) This is the way. 😎
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    What did you do to your computer today?

    Yesterday I “fixed” the BT on my 08 MacBook. This is a Mac I use Pithos to stream music to my BT record player that is connected to some nice KRK g1 studio monitors and that my middle son uses as a retro console station when he’s trying to beat Super Mario World. Anyways, post MX update and...
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    VCFMW 2026 Should Be Sweet!

    What/where is mistuwa?