I found the fix for Audio and video playback: After my Chromebook, this is my best laptop, and far more private, customizable, and powerful. On the whole I'm genuinely grateful for the project, and deem it worthy of support. I also found a github link that makes everything look a lot more Mac-like, even with a dark theme. I like the design sensibility, even if it doesn't always live up to it.

I want this program to work, but it feels half-finished.Īnd yet, elementary remains so much more responsive than OSX was on this machine. But right now, I can't navigate using it (can't click the header). I can show the document markdown outline. But when I open the side panel, it duplicates files. Writing is my main interest in computers. I guess this bug has been reported too: shutdown often hangs. So elementary custom apps wind up being irrelevant. But the solutions are just complex enough, I move to the web. I get that Google moved the bar on security. I don't know if that's an issue with Mac hardware or what. * I still haven't been able to play a dvd movie or music CD, not even with VLC. It doesn't look like any other elementary app, but it works now, too. It's a bug related to GTK+ display, I gather, but the online fixes didn't work on the launch button. I downloaded, but it would immediately bomb at launch. I'm happier, and it really doesn't seem any slower. * Epiphany didn't allow me to put bookmarks in folders, or pin tabs. NOT intuitive! But at least it works now. After a sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, and a reboot, it did work. Wouldn't update, wouldn't install anything. In my case, it did: sound, backlit keys, etc.įollow-up. At this point, you can run the live distro to make sure everything works.Click on one of the icons that is not the hard drive.When you hear the startup chime, press and hold the Option key.Press the Power button to turn on your Mac (or Restart your Mac if it's already on).Insert the USB boot media into an open USB slot.For wireless configuration tips, see here. As it happened, I had an old USB wireless dongle, which allowed me to add the driver later. But Ubuntu-based distros like elementary, and a few others, can install the correct driver easily as an option during installation. Macs, or at least these Macs, use a Broadcomm wireless card, which is not the default for most Linux distros. If possible, plug the Mac into a wired internet connection.Use a program - I recommend BalenaEtcher - to burn the file to a USB drive.It doesn't matter if you download on a PC, a Mac, or another Linux distro.

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