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Took roughly three hours because meanwhile I was doing other chores and only passed by the laptop roughly every 15 minutes to enable successive stages of the updates. It passed three complete versions of the OS until it finally installed the current version.

Everything went well, the machine is running smoothly and up to date now.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Ubuntu, went all the steps from LTS 16 to LTS 24. I didn't bring up Linux in my post because there's this dumb os bashing all around. I don't care for that, this os works fine, that's all I need.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

running almost any flavor of gnu/linux is good soup given the alternative. enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not like Windows would be able to run.

Any GNU/Linux distro is good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I actually just gave up on trying to put W11 LTS directly on a 17 year old PC. It booted to the USB, but it wouldn't recognize the w8 storage driver.

I would rather put Linux on it, but I'm trying to sell it to make room for more hardware.

So far I bought 5 computers and resold all them plus a few I had in my basement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is dull, perfect for this community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Accurate statement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To be fair bringing up Linux is only dull for the wives. :). OpenSUSE here, not as dull as Debian, but not Arch either.

My wife is on NixOS, because she 100% does not care about an OS, only that it works identically every time even if drive died; so I have her config stored elsewhere in case a new build is ever needed. Turned a 2010 sloooow windows laptop into a peppy zoom call, web, email machine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

If it's not Linux, they're banned