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My parents have this old 2015 MacBook Air that they wanted to use but couldn’t due to no security updates and slow running. I convinced them to let me load up fedora on it instead of junking it. They only really need it for some basic document writing, email, and web surfing so I figured this is perfect for them.

Made a bootable drive with Fedora 43 work station on it, figured gnome would be the most Apple like spin. Everything went super smooth until I realized that the WiFi drivers weren’t installed lol. I also didn’t have a Ethernet adapter for usb-a so I had to overnight it to me while my parents swore I bricked their Mac all night. Got the adapter this AM, hooked it up, installed the drivers and other necessary tweaks, and viola! This Mac has new life.

So far my parents are liking it and understanding it (even though my mom seems more excited about the snoopy wallpaper and Firefox theme, lol). Getting their emails on thunderbird was driving me crazy. Nothing to do with thunderbird, they just didn’t know their passwords smh. All in all not bad. To new Linux converts

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

KDE will never work the same as MacOS until its control panel looks about the same as MacOS' system preferences app. Idk what it's like now, but back in my day KDE's settings looked more like Windows' registry editor, and KDE was obviously influenced by Windows while Gnome 2 was influenced by MacOS.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You really haven't checked lately, then.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that scrollbar on KDE doesn't inspire confidence.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't be difficult.

You really cannot argue that the layout, and hence how people would actually navigate it is not "about the same". Your words.

To bring up a cosmetic difference is a nitpick. It's the breeze theme, with a personal color scheme on top, not something explicitly made to look like MacOS. Which it could be.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL the amount of things to twiddle is a ‘cosmetic difference’.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is.

That MacOS doesn't display the scrollbar except while scrolling, does not reduce the height of the total list.

Both have search fields for good reason.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah sure. One needs to wade through dialogs for three days every time they want to change something, that's the Windows and KDE way!

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And has been the MacOS way for a while now, too.

What was your point, again?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only a blind man could think that MacOS' design approach is the same as KDE's.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It seems your point is to shit on KDE, in contrast to MacOS. But since you don't actually know the current state of either, you're just making a fool of yourself.

Good day.