Andrea CallegaroI’ve brought this old MacBook Pro back to life by installing Fedora, and everything works perfectly… except the keyboard.
I just can’t get used to the French keyboard layout (I’m Italian). Any advice? Any ideas?
CeceliaFor you MacBook Pro users installing Debian, I leave you the knowledge of mbpfan’s existance.
https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/mbpfan/mbpfan.8.en.html
Installable with: sudo apt install mbpfan
Trying Subtitle Composer. It’s really cool that this was included by default in my KDE Plasma install. I’m finding it a little visually glitchy and inconsistent with how I’m able to use keyboard commands (focus dependent on if I have editable text in focus—it’s a bit difficult to achieve blur), however in the Debian version—though it could be my particular theme tweaks or ancient graphics card. I’m a version behind, so maybe the painting issue has already been resolved.
Anyway, giving it a try to caption a short video. It’s really quite full featured and supports a bunch of formats. I may need to customize some keyboard shortcuts for efficiency since this MacBook Pro did not come with an Insert (Ins) key.
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https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/fedora-asahi-remix-43/
Okay, following what I did on XFCE, I was able to replicate on KDE (yay!). So, now I’m able to type my special characters using my well memorized Mac keyboard memory, but it only works with the right alt key—which I never used on the Macintosh and so most of the inputs for these characters feel incredibly uncomfortable to input (I like to use my left thumb for option/alt and left pinky for shift—most of those higher level key combinations make use of characters on the right side of the keyboard, so it’s a nice division of labor). My potential solution, evremap does not seem to be able to counter the OS’s hold on the left alt key. What are my options (no pun intended) to finally be happy with typing?
#Linux #KDEPlasma #MacintoshKeyboard #LinuxOnMac #evremap #Wayland
Using Xfce on real hardware (which feels a lot like it was modeled after Mac OS X a bit), I was able to pick my keyboard and I’m typing em dashes and elipses, no problem. Still annoyed that the left option key is unavailable to me by default. sigh
Jean François Huguel 🇨🇵Samedi, lors d'une install-party, j'ai installé ZorinOS sur un MacBook Pro delaissé...Résultat au-delà des attentes: installation sans histoire (mais longue parce que la distro pesait presque 8 gigas), et, une fois installé, un Linux bien fourni en logiciels, rapide, sur un ordi de haute qualité...le plus dur était de trouver la touche qui donne accès au choix du support de boot!
#linux #zorinos #macbookpro #installparty #freeos #linuxonmac
#linux #zorinos #macbookpro #installparty #freeos #linuxonmac
Fabian ReidingerLinux auf dem Mac: WLAN
Vor ein paar (11!) Jahren habe ich hier auf dem Blog schon einmal beschrieben, wie man die WLAN-Hardware der Apple Computer unter Linux zum Laufen bekommt. Nachdem die neuesten Distributionen auch auf proprietäre Treiber zugreifen können (wenn man das will), ist das heute kein Problem mehr. Schwierig ist d
https://www.fabian-reidinger.de/linux-auf-dem-mac-wlan/
#Apple #Linux #Mac #Problemlsung #Apple #Debian #iMac #Linux #LinuxonMac #MacBook #MacMini #Ubuntu
Linux auf dem Mac: WLAN nach Upgrade futsch
WLAN auf MacBooks, Mac Minis und iMac unter Ubuntu, Debian oder Mint ist immer so eine Sache. Schon die erste Einrichtung kann einen zur Verzweiflung bringen. Blöd, wenn die Sache erst funktioniert und dann nach einem Upgrade des Kernels von 6.14 auf 6.17 dann nicht mehr funktioniert.
Alle, die betroffen sind, sei mit dieser Anleitung geholfen:
https://www.fabian-reidinger.de/linux-auf-dem-mac-wlan-nach-upgrade-futsch/
#iMac #MacMini #MacBook #Apple #linuxonmac #Ubuntu #Linux #LinuxKernel #LinuxKernel617
Happy SteveI have a 2017 Intel Macbook Pro (currently with MacOS Ventura). 8GB, 256GB SSD
Is Mint Linux the usual recommendation for this sort of thing? (Looking to replace the OS, not dual-boot)
My previous Linux experience was from about '98 (Redhat 5.2) upto about 2013 (openSuse 13.?), plus a bit of tinkering on early R-Pi's, so I'm a bit out of the loop... assume I know very little relevant
Tips/human-written guides welcome! Thank you! :)