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Finally got my mini Mint sorted. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Tried for half the weekend to get elementary to work, it just refused to install for reasons unknown.

Gone with Mint for now.

I like the hardware (an old Intel MacBook Air) and didn’t want it to go to waste.

I’ll see how I get on with this desktop. Went feet first straight to bare metal because I couldn’t be bothered with dual boot. It was too much faff. Would value any insight from others who’ve found a lovely distro/DE combo with these tiny machines.

Making my first moves away from proprietary software. Thanks largely to being inspired by you delightful folk.

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Btw, is there a TUI start menu like tool, with favorites and so on?

Or even better, a whole status bar at the top/bottom, with time, battery, maybe even launched background processes listed you can bring to front?

No reason that we can't have some Desktop metaphor niceties on shell too, no?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I wouldn’t know how to do that tbh. I have merely the laptop, a copy of ‘The Linux Command Line’ and an internet connection and was going to see if I could figure it out. See how intuitive it is.

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