# Debian 12 on MacBook Air 2017

I have nothing to say here that isn't simply from the Debian wiki's
instructions, but I'm documenting this for myself in case something goes
horribly wrong and I need to reinstall.

lspci tells me my MacBook Air has a Broadcom BCM4360 wireless adapter, the
very newest(?) wireless LAN chip listed on the Debian wiki's wl page.

=> https://wiki.debian.org/wl

So after I run the installer, here's what I did.

# apt install vim sudo
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list => add "contrib" and "non-free"
# usermod -a -G sudo user
# apt install firefox-esr sway network-manager

Reboot, then as user

$ sway

Open Firefox and go to this dang wiki page to copy this, because I am not
transcribing

$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

$ nmcli radio wifi
$ sudo nmcli radio wifi on
$ nmcli dev wifi list
$ sudo nmcli dev wifi connect network-ssid

Reboot and continue installing packages and setting up zsh.

$ sudo apt install git curl wget python3 ranger tmux fzf gnupg pass
pipewire-audio jackd2 bemenu yambar fonts-jetbrains-mono fonts-unifont

It's also hugely important for me to enable bitmap fonts with

$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

Then the next most important thing is to install Librewolf per these
instructions:

=> https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/

and build Neovim from source.