Running Linux on old PC

Linux can revive your old PC!

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[deckardpegasus]

all those extra cpu cycles and all that extra ram is the microsoft spyware running in background...no joke

[tebemargono]

I already using Linux, and I saw your short at my Linux Laptop

[damiandark]

I have a story regarding this. 5 years ago my old 2012 elite book broke and I didnt have any money so for like 20usd got a old intel pentium laptop with 2gb ram and installed a debian distro named "unix" (came with windows xp). That enabled me to open word pdf and exel well enough to pass highschool, really was helpful in a difficult time.

[alphacraft]

I started using Linux on my rather old laptop. Now I even use it on my modern gaming rig. (It's already one year ago, when I bought it. It's a bit older, but still modern)

[MyTubeAIFlaskApp]

Linux is all I run. I am a programmer. It is great to learn Python.

[My-noname]

Haven't bought a new laptop in 15 years now. I buy 2nd hand laptops that people thinks are to slow for Windows, install Linux and I have a lightning fast laptop for pocket change.

[GMPranav]

Unpopular opinion but having a windows 7 laptop has come in handy for me a lot of time. I have dual booted it with win7 and lubuntu. The most epic combo.

[stranded_mariner]

My wife's computer has a Ryzen CPU and 16Gb of RAM and was sluggish with Windows 11 on, and it had only received updates, no new software installed on it. So I installed fedora 40 workstation and it's incredibly snappy now, so much so that I could even run a VB on it for her

[astral]

I use Linux on my 2018 laptop, Windows 10 on my desktop, and Vista for a 2000s setup on my old PC. Actually runs pretty nice on my laptop, but Vista on an old machine from around 2008 is actually really useful, especially with Mypal browsing + extended kernel. I used Linux on it for a while, but it was a bit unnatural.

[player]

Watched this on a 2008 machine running MX Linux... ;)

[williamnessanbaum]

I've put Linux on a whole slew of different older PC's. I started by learning Linux with Zorin OS. I just recently migrated over to Linux Mint. Mint, with its MATE desktop feels generations beyond Zorin. I now have a 4, 1 generation MacBook and a Lenovo SL510 running Mint. their both fantastic. The one little issue is that Mint does not have driver/firmware for the Apple iSight camera. A cheap external 640x480 resolution webcam from Five Below works perfectly. Cheers to all the staff at Mint.

[firebadnofire]

Linux is great for old and new pcs

My current gaming pc runs linux mint and works beautifully

[unlockthepicture]

Another distro I love to use on my old laptops is Linux Mint. Especially the Xfce Edition

[alephcake]

It's always a percentage of usage though. On my laptop with 8 GB of RAM idle usage on a fresh install of W11 is about 1.3 GB, on my PC with 48 GB it's about 5-6 GB. Outrageous still. Linux with Cinnamon uses half a gig max.

[RAJ-kztd]

Using Debian now it's almost 1 month prior to that as an cyber security enthusiasts I used to use Parrot OS and even prior to that, Fedora... So it's might be 1 year since I'm using Linux. So based on this 1 year experience I can boldly say Linus Torvalds is a Legend🎉

[ringolee]

No, I am not interested in installing Linux on my old PC... Linux is on my NEW PC now!

[joeszymanski]

I had an old HP laptop running Windows 8.1 that had hardly any use and always worked fine what little I used it. I booted it up recently and constantly got 100% disk usage, completely unusable. I spent weeks working on it trying everything I could find and nothing fixed it. I decided as a hail Mary to run a Linux distro. It runs smooth as a new one now.

[sudoGL]

I Installed Linux Mint MATE edition on my mom's old 6th gen intel i3 laptop and it runs like a dream now!

[sixoffive]

I use to work in IT, I got to shut down Linux / Unix servers for the last time before my final day. It was common and normal for them to have an uptime of over a year without any problems. No memory leak problems with this OS.
Yes Linux is running on my personal workstation.

[adinnugroho]

Even my Laptop is new and use more modern Hardware, run Linux just feel satisfying

I currently use Manjaro Linux as it can be customize much like Android