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It's early days, but I wanted to document my successful install of MX-23.6_x64 on a 2009 15" MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo. I obtained the laptop from my son who'd judged it a throwaway (or old folks hand-me-down) since it was maxed out at OS 10 (I think) with apps that could no longer be updated ...

In my install (different than yours), there's a menu item called 'Desktop'. In that, there's a tab, "File/Launcher Icons" with a section called "Default Icons". Checking "Trash" will add the Trash icon to the desktop. As for adding a Trash icon to the Panel, I suspect a launcher to open the Trash ...

Here's one of many results from the search "linux customize terminal prompt". This was one of my first exercises - repeated as my preferences changed - to become more comfortable using the terminal and understanding where basic user settings are stored.

Good luck!

Greg.

Sorry if there's a place for hardware compatibility reviews or comments. I couldn't find it.

I have been a Linux user of various distributions since the early 2000s, currently an MX user on several local and remote desktops and my primary laptop. This year, we are migrating N/S with my MXLinux ...

Don't be discouraged by suggestions that you may be in over your head. If you're willing to explore the edges of your Linux knowledge and capabilities, be prepared for occasional branches that provide challenges to increase your skills, and forge ahead.

To be prepared you should learn how to ...

A solution to #2 exists using the panel's docklike taskbar plugin, but there may or may not be other solutions specific to how you normally launch your applications. Please specify how you launch your applications; list multiple methods, if applicable.

Best of luck,

Greg.

@Ironfighter: I have Thunderbird working within the MS requirements on one MX computer, but it's failing on another MX PC which complains that Thunderbird cannot logon to my Outlook email with a personal account. For the working PC, I followed MS instructions to prepare for the oauth2 requirements ...

@xaol, post #11

This is a great tip! I was struggling with 'man rsync' just yesterday and could have used this since the man pages are so long and detailed, yet unsearchable in a terminal session. I had to do some research to get man -H to work, and this is what I learned:

Your post mentioned that ...