SouthEast LinuxFest

Don't mess with the ducks

Lindowstosh?

I installed Linux Mint on an old 2008 hand-me-down Macbook (thanks, grandma!), then I used the Chicago 95 theme to make it look like oldschool Windows. It took me longer than I would have liked to figure out how to get this thing to recognize a bootable usb drive. If you happen to be in the same situation, here's how you do it.

As for how it runs, it's not too bad. It has 2GBs of RAM and a dual core which handles programs like Firefox and LibreOffice just fine. The disk drive doesn't work anymore, and that seems to be a common issue with these laptops, but that's really no big deal. The missing right click is bothersome and hotkey alternatives are sometimes unresponsive. But the real problem is that the battery died and the Chinese replacements are a scam and don't work at all. Pair that with the magnetic power adapter and you have frequent unexpected shutdowns. If it weren't for that, I might have used this as my main laptop.