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Do you install linux on old laptops? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am running Mint on a MacBook Air from 2008

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

Why not mint there as well??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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