Install git and followed this github repo which worked just fine. So activate wifi manually - and everythings pretty much worksįirst deal with ‘fn’ and ‘ctrl’ key swap. Install easy, very few questions, somehow skips wifi Plug into USB, recycle power, press “Option” on macOS keyboard: voilaĪfter a quick hunch… no to ‘live/test only’ and yes to install, whole disk Startup Disk Creator using a so-far unused 8gb usb drive Initial Stepsĭownload of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image: took a few moments, even on broadband, feels slower than normal (fast!) Ubuntu package updates, maybe lesser CDN or bad luck Initial steps were quick: maybe an hour or less? Customizing a machine takes longer than I remembered, this took a few minutes here and there quite a few times, but always incremental. So just as a zoom client it may make a lot of sense otherwise just walking around with it as a quick portable machine seems perfect (especially as my Lenovo X1 still (ahem) suffers from one broken key I really need to fix…).īelow are some lightly edited notes from the installation. the camera is way better than what I have in my trusted Lenovo X1 or at my desktop. Screen-resolution on this pre-retina simple Air is so-so at 1440 pixels. It is a little heavier than I thought (and isn’t “air” supposed to be weightless?) The ergonomics seem quite nice. First, a bootable usbstick was prepared, and the machine’s content was really (really, and check again: really) no longer needed, I got hold of it for good. So I poked around a little on the interwebs and conclude that yes, this could work.įast forward a few months and I finally got hold of it, and had some time to play with it. But give the newer one, its apparent age and whatnot, it was deemed surplus. As it turns out this supposedly dead one coped well enough with the coffee so that after a few weeks of drying it booted again. With a few months (then) to graduation (which by now happened), and with the apparent “genuis bar” verdict of “it’s a goner” a new one was ordered. So a few months ago kiddo one dropped an apparently fairly large cup of coffee onto her one and only trusted computer.

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