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Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

Idk what year that pic was taken, but 2GB of ram is useless no matter what operating system you put on it.

Except ofc for a home nas, but as a desktop, the user is going to open Firefox, try to open a website, it will take minutes to load and the user just wasted $20

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

5 minutes ago I was gaming on my 2gb Windows XP machine.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I just installed my tenth distro on a 2gb netbook, and they all played games of that era just as well as I remember. Just got done playing a map on dawn of war.

I don't expect these things to play cyberpunk 2077, but if you just want to play stardew valley or terraria it is more than sufficient.

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