The first hurdle right out of the gate was which “edition” to choose: Cinnamon, MATE, or xfce. My distribution of choice was Linux Mint, which is Ubuntu-based but less with the constant changes that Canonical keep making. The MacBook Air still works fine, if a bit slow, on macOS 10.13 but I felt like a bit of nerding! Installation We have a still perfectly usable Late-2010 MacBook Air (“MacBookAir3,2”, model number A1369), but with macOS 10.14 Mojave dropping support for Macs older than 2012 ( it’s possible to extremely-hackily install it on older machines but I’d rather not go down that route), I decided I’d try installing Linux on it. The only additional post-upgrade work I had to do was re-adding the Section "Device" bit to /usr/share/X11//nf as described below to get the brightness keys working again). ( Update December 2020: I successfully upgraded from Linux Mint 19.3 to Linux Mint 20 by following the official Linux Mint instructions. Notably, no need to install pommed, and including the specific voodoo needed for the 2010 MacBook Air from Ask Ubuntu regarding PCI-E bus identifiers). ( Update May 2020: I’ve re-run through this whole process using Linux Mint 19.3 and have updated this blog post with new details.
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