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What are some good uses for an old laptop? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello im back again...

so i recently upgraded a 11 year old laptop i use to use from 2gb of ram to 8, it made a big diffrent. also thanks to the linux community i decided on linux mint mate and its a pretty basic laptop.

i was going to use the laptop to make gaming videos with but it cant really game too well or record while gaming. it has another issue that is the battery is bad so it it to be plugged into a wall at all times, i guess its not very portable.

I litterly have no idea what to do now with it and i dont want to sell it sense i just upgraded the ram, like woudl it be better to try somethign else, any ideas by chance or things to share?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone here has grand ideas, but maybe you don't need any of that stuff. My old laptops are retired as couch laptops; they just live on the couch, so I can do pointless stuff, like leave this comment.

Currently on a laptop that was purchased in 2007; it was running Windows Vista on a 2GHz Pentium Dual Core, with 4GB RAM. As you can imagine, it did a poor job, even when new. For the past decade+, it has been running Linux Mint with (fast and light) XFCE desktop, and it's faster than a new Windows laptop (of similar shit-tier).

So, there you have my suggestion. Throw Linux on your old laptop (so it runs properly), and then park it on the couch.