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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

"Borrowed" a Dell Latitude E6420 from work, put Fedora 42 KDE on it. Boots faster than my assigned laptop with Win11. Also put modded Minecraft on it for shits and giggles and it runs suprisingly well (can't crank everything up though, of course). Worse case, will probs turn it into a server. Best case, it's still a legit good laptop for light workloads.

Best of all, it took maybe 15 minutes to get it set up. No tinkering, no Cortana during setup, just straight install and go. There's 0 reason to stick with Windows now. There are free/open-source alternatives for anything you may use.

If you really want to pay for something, donate to the great devs of all these great projects!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Interesting, I might have a 15 year old laptop somewhere, wonder how usable it still is

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I daily drive a 13 year old laptop with middling (at the time) specs. I'm sure it would be fine

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If it's on a 64bit architecture, it probably can still run Linux Mint somewhat smoothly. If it's 32bit though, best you can do is probably make it a homeserver with archlinux32 or some other silly hack.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pra quem conseguir contribuir traduzindo o site, já seria de bastante ajuda. Dá pra ver mais aqui, mas até o momento eu só achei 1 lugar de instalação brasileiro no site.

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