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.
Thanks, I’ll look into MX. I wanted to try Endeavour because the KDE looked appealing, but when booting from the live iso, the kb, trackpad, wifi weren’t working.
The only thing I had to do with Mint was install the Broadcom wifi driver.
I haven’t tried the webcam, but everything else, including WiFi, worked out of the box for me. The KDE version uses modern Plasma and is not a distro that moves hell and high water to get something working on a potato, but overall it is designed with middle-old machines like these in mind.
I’m sure a million other distros will work as well or better, but I do like MX, and it made me smile to see a child of the Mepis LiveCDs I used 20 years ago is still around.