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.
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?
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.