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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

”I can fix him."

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

laptops with 32x processor or bios instead of uefi

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Then, no. Mine is from 2017.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well, my macbook pro from 2009 is 64bit and normally uses efi but in order to get the nvidia GPU running I had to force it to boot grub2 using legcy Bios by using a CDrom for the ArchISO.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It can't run the latest FarCry smoothly.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If by "latest" you mean any of them, then yes.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

i'll put linux on every laptop i can get my grubby little hands on

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

honestly, I wasn't even thinking about GRUB when I sad that, but lmao it works so well

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unintended puns are the best

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LILO it works so well

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I am running Mint on a MacBook Air from 2008

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How does it run? That's not your main machine, I hope.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not mint there as well??

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can‘t run DaVinci resolve as good and a bunch of other reasons. MacOS can be pretty nice.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 🤣🤟🏻

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does it still run with a HD? Upgrading to SSD really accelerated mine.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had also replaced the HDD with an SSD. :(

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yes, but it already had Linux on it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Every computer I own runs Linux or BSD. I still use a Thinkpad X200T running Arch.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A fellow BSD fan =D

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn't do anything while running Windows 10. Couldn't install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.

It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I install Linux.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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?".

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, usually I install Linux on new laptops that then become old.

But also, I distrohop , so I also install on old laptops…

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes! I slapped Lubuntu on an HP Stream 13 not long ago. Works like a charm.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How dare you threaten me with a good time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You have some work pending in that case😂 at least 2 PCs in your house need an upgrade

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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 😄

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I install linux in my only laptop

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's the only thing keeping my 08 Asus going RN. Lil bastard can't die on me. I won't allow it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I installed Mint xfce on my landlord's low-end laptop and some time later Mint Cinnamon on my wife's 2016 Lenovo which was starting to show the typical signs. Great experience for both of them. I mean, the laptops work, which is the least you should expect from something you paid 600 bucks for

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have Linux running on an Acer c710 laptop with an SSD duct-taped in the case. It just won't die.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have a 2012 laptop running endeavour

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"We have the technology to revive him."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

everything that isn't my main machine runs linux. my old laptop from 10 years ago, a PC made of my old rig's parts i use as a NAS and jellyfin server, and i almost got my brother to install linux on his thinkpad.

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