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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...