What To Do with Old Laptop? Bring it Back to Life with Linux

Do you have an old laptop and not sure what to do with it? Well, this is the perfect time to re-purpose it and make it not only functional but fast. Simply removing Windows and using a Lightweight version of Linux will speed it up considerably and you will learn a new skill.

[AvoidTheseMemes]

"So with that, let's jump over to the desktop. We're gonna do a fresh build of Peppermint.
*Proceeds to install into Lubuntu*

[stevedrake]

Chris, You got that right. My old Acer laptop had become so slow that it was almost unusable for about 15 minutes after it was powered on. I decided to install MX Linux 18 on it and was amazed at the difference in speed. I does take a little over a minute to boot up, but this is because of the old technology. Once it has all initialized, all of the programs start and run quickly and it runs as fast as it did when it was new. Linux really saved this machine from the Recycler.

[benjzaremba]

I just love how much faster Linux is compared to Windows

[CoolDudeClem]

I can remember when Windows 7 was brand new, only seems like several days ago, now it's called "pretty old".

[davoudarsalani]

I own a 12-year-old Sony laptop on which Linux Mint 32-bit is installed and I use it for my classes. It works like a charm!

[noritelewisian]

light weight linux on a second hand laptop that had been trashed was my start in linux

[debapriyoroy]

This is the video I wanted in this channel for months. Finally my wish came true.Thank You Chris 🙇🙇🙇

[fishmanloveslinux]

Chris well done my friend. I really like Lubuntu on my ancient machines. I installed it on a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 laptop and it flies like an eagle. I am going to do a video soon of it. Thank you for making these videos. I just subbed to your channel as I find your video quality very high. Keep up the great work. : = )

[CKlegion]

👍🏻 Just what I needed!!
Keep going Chris!
Greetings from Netherland

[Praxss]

First Upgrade old laptop HDD to SSD and then install Linux....

[gimik]

This is how I transitioned into full time Linux use. My old laptop ran like garbage with windows, got to like using linux on it so much I made the transition to my main PC.

[johnmal]

I set newbies up with peppermint a lot of the time. I use the ice to lock in things like gmail! etc.. Windows users are usually pretty amazed that it never slows down. About a month later they will say when is it going to get slow? Answer its not! Great video as always!

[AgentJot]

I'm running Linux Mint on an old Samsung N150 netbook with 2Gb of memory and a small SSD. It runs really well. I'm using it primarily for listening to music from Spotify and audiobooks as it's dead silent so it doesn't distract me during late evening, listening sessions and works with my external, hi-fi DAC and tube headphone amp. It is almost perfect, low budget Audio Hi-Fi solution. I'm super happy :)

[carlitosandres]

Why does it says it is an Intel core i5? Wasn't it an atom?

[FirstnameLastname-fybl]

Lol I want a Linux toaster 🙃. Nice video Chris. I’d like to see what is next past the installation this is the place people tend to struggle when switching. Maybe do a trouble shooting series with real world problems people come across when switching. You’re definitely getting me inspired to boot up an old laptop and give it a go.

[jtodora]

Great video! I'm going to try running Lubuntu on my old Toshiba laptop that I use in my basement shop. Thanks!!!

[xinwang]

How did Linux upgrade your CPU from ATOM to i5?

[AjinkyaSChavan]

HOLY SHIT!! i have same netbook i was thinking to install Linux on it ....Thank you!!

[richardharding]

Hi Chris, Richard from England, great channel. Linux Mint does it for me, but i have saved some old D series Dell laptops with Lubuntu.

[FireJosiah]

You should try AntiX, I got it installed on an old xp workstation that used to be in an office. It had 1Gb of ram and a single core 2.66 GHz processor and it took only 150Mb of ram on boot and the CPU usage was at ~2%