Well, usually I install Linux on new laptops that then become old.
But also, I distrohop , so I also install on old laptops…
Every computer I own runs Linux or BSD. I still use a Thinkpad X200T running Arch.
A fellow BSD fan =D
I am running Mint on a MacBook Air from 2008
How does it run? That’s not your main machine, I hope.
Definitely not. But still okay for browsing and mail. My main machine is a 27” 5K iMac from 2014 that is running MacOs Sonoma under open core.
Why not mint there as well??
Can‘t run DaVinci resolve as good and a bunch of other reasons. MacOS can be pretty nice.
I see, I give macOS another shot on my newly acquired 2013 retina MacBookPro (pf course for free). And is it only to finally get my TOTP out of apple keychain 🤣🤟🏻
I replaced the battery and RAM on a Macbook Pro 8,1 running Pop_OS recently and the damn thing didn’t even work better. The battery still only lasted around an hour or two on medium brightness and YouTube @ 720p. Absolutely garbage, and it really made me feel like a fool for spending the extra money on that damn thing.
Does it still run with a HD? Upgrading to SSD really accelerated mine.
I had also replaced the HDD with an SSD. :(
i’ll put linux on every laptop i can get my grubby little hands on
heh, GRUB
honestly, I wasn’t even thinking about GRUB when I sad that, but lmao it works so well
LILO it works so well
Unintended puns are the best
I install Linux.
Of course. A large part of my network infrastructure is old laptops running various Linux distros.
Yes, but it already had Linux on it.
Anything I use exclusively runs Linux.
Hardware I pass down runs Linux.
The family computer runs Linux.
Kids school laptops and wife laptop run Windows.
You mean you haven’t set up a PXE Boot auto installer for non Linux machines connecting to your network to be automatically upgraded yet?
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
You have some work pending in that case😂 at least 2 PCs in your house need an upgrade
Of course! And not even just laptops, I like to test/install Linux on about anything possible… I must know the answer to “Will it Linux?”.
I have a 2012 laptop running endeavour
I have Linux running on an Acer c710 laptop with an SSD duct-taped in the case. It just won’t die.
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Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I’m working on projects. Works great.
Always! I don’t spend any money on computing devices anymore. I just collect the old laptops from my family and install arch or tumbleweed on them 😄
I install linux in my only laptop
