Apple doesn’t make it easy! The biggest pain? Drivers. You already knew that though.

I installed Windows 10 to the mini and didn’t think much about drivers; wasn’t sure I was going to keep the OS on the, still not. Once I it was up and running I still wanted to be able to give it a good test drive – need to see what my best options for Steam is. I digress, lets get to the substance.

After you have installed Windows 10 you will need to get the hardware working that isn’t. For me it was the trackpad/mouse combo - the magic mouse, bluetooth, HDMI sound, and WiFi. In my research I came across a link to a developer who wrote software to get the drivers needed for the model of Mac running Windows. This worked, with some fumbles.

First, you will need to get <a href="https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier" rel="noopener">brigadier</a>. This may work flawlessly for you, it didn’t for me. The site states that using the -i option will install the files and -k will prevent the download from being deleted after install. None of that worked for me…

After running brigadier a few times with no success. When running brigadier it will if you the link that it is downloading the Mac pkg from. I used this link and put it in the browser to download it.

Fetching Boot Camp product at URL http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/28/26/031-24514/qx7ph7k6mewtcf4eyhxmiilgc7r2ikjgud/BootCampESD.pkg.

The rest of the instruction on the site for brigadier were good. After the download I unpacked the pkg and then the payload. After unpacking the Payload file I was left with a dmg file. I then used <a href="http://dmg2iso.sourceforge.net/Home.html" rel="noopener">dmg2iso</a> to convert the dmg to an iso. Once I had the iso it mounted in Windows 10 like a CD.

Once you can see the CD mounted you are good. The CD contains all of the drivers that you will need. Now there was talk for the mouse that I have to use magic mouse drivers, I didn’t use that. On the CD there are mouse drivers and trackpad drivers; I installed both. Mouse works great – no gestures scroll works.

That was my experience with getting Windows 10 installed on a Mac Mini.

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This install is about 6 months old and I haven't had any issues. The primary function of the build is to play games. It will not play Overwatch, but I wasn't looking to play Overwatch. It plays Balder's Gate, Castle Crashers, Portal, and other fine with little to no issues. Fall Out: New Vegas I needed to turn the resolution down from 1080 to 720 and reduce the clip plane to smooth out the game play; still it runs fine.