I liked what I saw in Elementary OS its Pantheon desktop is really great, and its look and feel are familiar to Apple users-it has a dock at the bottom of the display and icons that lead to useful applications.

I got to a live desktop, and the operating system recognized my Broadcom wireless chipset-I thought this just might work! I made a boot drive with my USB creator and inserted it into the MacBook Air. After reading some good reviews, I decided to try Elementary OS 5.0 (Juno).

Sometimes it was the wireless card another time, it was a lack of support for the touchpad.

I tried several Linux distributions on my MacBook Air, but there was always a gotcha. I am glad I did, but I felt bad that I had this perfectly good MacBook lying around unused. My computer, released in 2015, has 4GB RAM, an i5 processor, and a Broadcom 4360 wireless card, but Mojave proved too much for my daily driver-it made working with GnuCash impossible, and it whetted my appetite to return to Linux. When I installed Apple's MacOS Mojave, it slowed my formerly reliable MacBook Air to a crawl.

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