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[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Dude I had a bunch of people tell me to install mint OS on an older intel MacBook Pro and no one told me that out the box your Wi-Fi doesn’t work, the keyboard doesn’t light up, the touch bar doesn’t work, etc. lol

I don’t even like the Touch Bar but I need F keys so…

Then when I asked what to do they all said “well that’s your fault for using a Mac.” Most unhelpful shit ever. One guy said “well use an external keyboard and Ethernet chord then. I’m on a tower what’s the issue here?”

It’s a laptop. Sometimes I move around with it. I travel a fair bit too.

Idk honestly it’s not just a Linux thing. Any technical community you’ll often find a lot of people who hand wave away very reasonable issues instead of either suggesting a solution or, I don’t know, just not saying anything? Like they have to chime in and call you a whiner.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever get everything working? I don't have a Mac, I'm just curious.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not with mint no. I think I’m going to try and boot pop or mint on my wife’s old X1 carbon. Specs aren’t remotely as good but it’ll be sufficient for a Jellyfin server