If you knew/remember the first days of KDE 5, it was the buggiest DE ever invented at that time. However nowadays I barely even see any bug in KDE, at least for my use cases. And I’m a WM guy who use KDE out of laziness.

I wonder when will be the Podman update, to run it on Bazzite.

Yup. Couldn’t find any FOSS launcher to replace it. However I have an apk from before the times they got bought, though I also blocked it on the firewall and always used like that anyway. It doesn’t get update from Aurora Store too because it’s in the blacklist.

— Yo, comrade, which launcher are you using?

— Eblan.

— ???, I just asked a question.

— The launcher is Eblan.

— Ohh!

Currently it’s quite buggy but I can see this replacing Nova Launcher for me in the future.

It’s MATE though, not XFCE.

For distros, not desktop environments. You can choose DEs for distros though. But there it is: https://distrosea.com/

I see. It seems I might need that information since current closed source one runs quite problematic. That’d be great if you can look.

I see. That would be great if you can. Today we tried it on a Zoom conference and it was a disaster, connection drops, low speed etc.

By the way, I did some digging. lspci -nn | grep -i network says this Macbook has BCM4360. However, dmesg | grep -i wlan says BCM43a0 module is loaded. Also found out that BCM4360 is not supported by Linux kernel. >> https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers/b43.html#list-of-hardware

It seems wl is proprietary Broadcom driver. This was installed on previous distro.

Possible but I don’t think that would be it since it was perfectly fine when running MacOS. I also checked an adapter replacement video and it seems quite easy, just in case if I need it (hopefully not). So thanks for the recommendation.

By the way, I checked from kernel-org and it says BCM4360 is not supported.

When I check the which module is loaded dmesg | grep -i wlan says it’s BCM43a0.

However, lspci -nn | grep -i network says it’s BCM4360. Is this the problem? I also checked this on live ISO EndeavourOS and got the same result.

Do you have connection issues by the way? I installed LMDE today and there is a fluctuation in netspeed. It’s fine on boot but might change after that. It drops to 2 mbit/s.

Do you have netspeed fluctuation for wi-fi? I installed LMDE by the way. The driver came pre-installed, which is great. However there is still a problem it seems. It’s fine when i first boot it, after some time the speed drops to below 2 mbit/s. I disabled the powersave for the driver but it only helped with the connection drops.

That makes sense. Still, if LMDE works out of the box where regular Mint doesn’t, I’ll be surprised.

That’s interesting. I’ll try this. It’s also good on the long run because it’s a slow update system like Debian, I can think this as an alternative to what I initially planned with an immutable distro.

To be fair I haven’t tried this even though it’s what I use on my PC. I don’t want to install a rolling-release because I’m not the person who will use it. Though I’ll try live ISO out of curiousity.

I hope they can pull this off because we really need this.

Hmm, same adapter then. Haven’t tried LMDE to be fair, but would it really be different from regular Mint regarding drivers?

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, I saw some people recommended USB adapters. Luckily I got it working with blacklisting (still testing for possible issues though), without that it indeed had ridiculous speeds.

Thanks for the reply! Currently it seems to be fixed with blacklisting but we’ll see if there will be any issues. Someone else mentioned that Mint can install required drivers on its drivers program (by connecting the Macbook via phone tethering).

Could you perhaps check which adapter your Macbook has? The one we have has BCM4360.

Is your wi-fi adapter also BCM4360? That’s the one this Macbook has and no distro recognized it including Mint. Though this Macbook has i5, maybe they’re kinda different?