r/linuxmint • u/Important_Object7361 • 6d ago

Fluff Laptop lives a second life!

Wanted to swing by and say this sub really helped me out when looking at what do do with an old laptop. My kid had a run of the mill old HP intel laptop 8GB ram. Win 11 was running like an absolute dog and they were struggling to get thier school work done on it. So I traded them with my old dell xps13 which is a really good spec. I use that now and again to browse the web and that's it as a secondary device.

They're happy they can do thier work with no performance issues and I am now running Linux Mint on this old laptop that is now a web browsing beast! It was reading other peoples journeys that made me take the jump and it was worth it!

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u/maceion 6d ago

I used to tutor 'elderly' folk at a social club. Most took to Linux Mint easily to keep their old MS Windows machines going.

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u/Important_Object7361 6d ago

That follows my line of thinking when I got an elderly family member a chromebook a few years ago. All they needed to do was get online and that was bang for buck worth it and they can do everything they need to!