I updated a 15 years old laptop from an eight years old operating system to the current one.
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running almost any flavor of gnu/linux is good soup given the alternative. enjoy!
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It's not like Windows would be able to run.
Any GNU/Linux distro is good
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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.
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Ubuntu is dull, perfect for this community.
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Debian is duller
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Accurate statement.
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To be fair bringing up Linux is only dull for the wives. :). OoenSUSE here, not as dull as Debian, but not Arch either.
My wife is on NixOS, because she 100% does knot 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. -
Hey! You down there! Can you hear us? We're over here, up in the 21st Century! Come join us!
Stereotyping people's interests by their gender stopped being funny in the 50s.
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Ah right we should inform comedians, since everyone is so offended by harmless joking in 2025. Dude, it is(was) Dull Men's Club...assumption being it is men here, that are dull, and are boring their wives talking about Linux. (I understand that some men may have husbands, and many women contribute to Linux use and FOSS maintenance, and
Maybe your wife or husband likes talking about Copy on Write Filesystem OS choices, but stats say many people do not want to hear about OS choices, and stats say in a "men's" group the majority would have a wife that falls into that Venn diagram--as opposed to a husband. -
- I updated a 15-year-old* laptop
- from an eight-year-old* operating system
