I've been using mega synced folders for most stuff. Works fine.
Initially installing them wasn't a problem anyway, but rather the driver breaking. It feels good to trust the laptop a again.
If you're still looking to free your USB port, I have now confirmed that this upgrade works!
It would help if you got the model right, and an exact one at that. As the others said, "iMac" isn't a mac laptop, but an AIO desktop.
From the thread I gather you have some model of MacBook Air, that looks like this:
I run linux on one of these. Everything worked out of the box, except for wireless. See my 2-part adventure for how I solved it.
Mac "bios" isn't exactly how you'd expect from PCs. Hold down alt key during startup to enter boot menu, and you're good to go.
If your family member was a mac user before, they might be most comfortable on Gnome, as it has aped many ui features from mac os. It has a similar dock, fluid trackpad-friendly navigation that works the same way, and more.
I'm fine with python, because it's consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.
Oh, I guess it's all good then. Thanks
Part 1: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1763180
So I went and did it. Ordered an adapter and an intel ax200. It seems work just fine out of the box in linux. This cost me 25 to 30 euros total.
Pics
Antenna considerations
The laptop was only designed for up to ac. The new card can do ax, which uses a different band. My router doesn't support ax, so I have no clue if that will see significant signal drop with the old antennae. I actually haven't even bothered to look deep enough to know if this even would be an issue, maybe it's okay.
Hi, I'd just like to join the club.
I wouldn't use it, but I don't think I have any reason to say you shouldn't add it, except maybe that it's more bloat. Compared to media bias, it seems less useful and more effort to maintain.
Too bad. Guess I'll go order the adapter.
2013 Macbook Air as the post says. It's some i5 board, can't say anything more specific right now.
Anyway, I'm also kind of done with software hassles on this one, and I also prefer linux, so I'd rather keep using it.
Yeah, these adapters are exactly what I intend to use if there's no mac card that just works.
However, for normal cards I have no clue about antenna compatibility, and macos compatibility. I guess the latter is just a nice to have instead of a requirement, though.
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Thankfully I also had an old usb dongle on hand. I don't want to leave it like that because it ate 50% of my two available usb ports.
![the background blur](https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/b6b69bb8-1af2-4aa3-af6e-27b0e1c936c6.png?thumbnail=256&format=webp)
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Edit: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1921123
I have this old '13 air. It's outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (π Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can't find any networks anymore.
Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I'd rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?
I don't know. Just "Gray" is also fine by me.
(π)
(π) indeed, definitely interested to see that.
On some devices I could not tell.
Well now that you made me open my inbox, I found it
Whoops. I was trying to find usages of that color and found none.
Edit: Changed to #555555
I went and did the same to light colors. The change is more subtle, but I like it.
{
"slate": {
"25": "251 251 251",
"50": "242 242 242",
"100": "229 229 229",
"200": "226 226 226",
"300": "222 222 222",
"400": "154 153 150",
"500": "102 102 102",
"600": "51 51 51",
"700": "85 85 85",
"800": "51 51 51",
"900": "51 51 51",
"950": "2 6 23"
},
"zinc": {
"50": "250 253 255",
"100": "243 244 246",
"300": "209 213 219",
"400": "156 163 175",
"500": "107 114 128",
"600": "75 85 99",
"700": "72 78 87",
"800": "55 59 65",
"900": "40 42 46",
"925": "32 34 37",
"950": "29 31 33"
},
"primary": {
"100": "241 245 249",
"900": "15 23 42"
},
"other": {
"black": "0 0 0",
"white": "255 255 255"
}
}
Edit: Orange replaced with dark gray.
<Also: blue accent version>
{
"slate": {
"25": "251 251 251",
"50": "242 242 242",
"100": "229 229 229",
"200": "226 226 226",
"300": "222 222 222",
"400": "154 153 150",
"500": "102 102 102",
"600": "51 51 51",
"700": "85 85 85",
"800": "51 51 51",
"900": "51 51 51",
"950": "2 6 23"
},
"zinc": {
"50": "250 253 255",
"100": "243 244 246",
"300": "209 213 219",
"400": "156 163 175",
"500": "107 114 128",
"600": "75 85 99",
"700": "72 78 87",
"800": "55 59 65",
"900": "40 42 46",
"925": "32 34 37",
"950": "29 31 33"
},
"primary": {
"100": "26 145 235",
"900": "22 122 198"
},
"other": {
"black": "0 0 0",
"white": "255 255 255"
}
}
![the background blur](https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/ddcdd1b9-75c8-4e02-a2ff-008c111e16e8.png?thumbnail=256&format=webp)
![](https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/ddcdd1b9-75c8-4e02-a2ff-008c111e16e8.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
EDIT: This is now integrated to Photon as the Neutral theme.
I did this a while ago, when theming was first introduced. I wanted a dark theme that wasn't black, and also not tinted.
json {"other":{"black":"#000000","white":"#ffffff"},"primary":{},"zinc":{"700":"#484e57","800":"#373b41","900":"#282a2e","925":"#202225","950":"#1d1f21"},"slate":{}}