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Before installing Linux, I had originally planned to dual-boot on my main PC, but somehow a gaming rig from 5 years ago isn't good enough to run windows 11, which is ridiculous.
Hey, that looks like the same PC I recently got ... I immediately installed Linux on it, though.
That box is suspiciously similar to the laptop I leave at my parents for when I visit. The mouse and keyboard even look identical!
Would you describe your laptop as "hot-n-ready"?
Delivers in 30 minutes or less, free either way?
I had the same on my 5 year old gaming rig. Turns out only thing blocking it was TPM being disabled. I reluctantly upgraded, as I have too many files on my PC needed for my wife's visa process, as well as a 2 year old toddler, so I really don't currently have the time to sort through, and backup all the files, and then install Linux.
Totally understandable. I took literal years to finally get a backup set up so that I could do this.
Well hey, if you keep your old hardware there's probably a ton of different ways you can use it for other purposes! :)
These memes about required specs make Linux look like its primary userbase are bums.
I have Linux running on a machine with 256 MB of RAM and a single core 700 MHz ARM11 CPU.
I also have it running on a machine with 128 multi-gigahertz cores and a terabyte of RAM. That flexibility is part of why I use Linux.
Linux: the official OS of vagabonds
Vagabums (idk which, but def a name for a foss project)
I miss the old images of the batshit crazy homemade Beowulf clusters people used to throw together that looked like something straight out of Serial Experiments Lain.
I think it means we like to be able to make full use...
Whether its a couple of servers with 4416+'s with 128GB ram and a pair of rtx 6000s or an 11yr old thinkpad w/8GB ram, its not the OS getting in my way.
I had one of the Macintosh iBook G4s with the notoriously shitty graphics card soldering. Early days of lead-free soldering. Mine started to fail just outside of warranty. The 'fix' was to put a lot of pressure on the chip so that all the connections were held in place, but that was quite difficult to do while it was still a laptop.
Dismantled the damn thing, yeeted the plastic shell, and screwed the remains onto a sheet of plywood. Looked a lot like pizza-box PC in the corner there. Got another couple of years out of it. Made it a lot more convenient for watching videos, since you could just prop the whole thing against a wall or whatever. Couple of USB extension leads meant that you could still use a mouse and keyboard in comfort.
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