Re: Linux on old laptop
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sun Nov 07 2021 07:08 pm
> I finally converted my old i5-2410 to Lubuntu 20. I was tired of waiting
> over 5 minutes for my windows 10 laptop to boot up and at least the pc
> will have another 5 years of life that I could use for email or web
> browsing or even telneting to bbses. I thought this would be better for
> the plannet than to buy another laptop right now.
I know this is over 6 months since you posted, but I just want to echo how incre
dible it is to extend old hardware in this way. I used elementaryOS, a Linux fl
avor known for its simplicity and out-of-box resemblance to macOS, and it revive
d a circa 2008 MacBook Pro that I am using for this very use case: browsing the
web, checking email, and telnetting into BBS'es. Strongly recommend it.
-=- Kaelon -=-
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