Well, my macbook pro from 2009 is 64bit and normally uses efi but in order to get the nvidia GPU running I had to force it to boot grub2 using legcy Bios by using a CDrom for the ArchISO.
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 🤣🤟🏻
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.
Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I'm working on projects. Works great.
Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn't do anything while running Windows 10. Couldn't install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.
It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.
I'm still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.
I installed Mint xfce on my landlord's low-end laptop and some time later Mint Cinnamon on my wife's 2016 Lenovo which was starting to show the typical signs. Great experience for both of them. I mean, the laptops work, which is the least you should expect from something you paid 600 bucks for
everything that isn't my main machine runs linux. my old laptop from 10 years ago, a PC made of my old rig's parts i use as a NAS and jellyfin server, and i almost got my brother to install linux on his thinkpad.
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Define "old".
laptops with 32x processor or bios instead of uefi
Then, no. Mine is from 2017.
Well, my macbook pro from 2009 is 64bit and normally uses efi but in order to get the nvidia GPU running I had to force it to boot grub2 using legcy Bios by using a CDrom for the ArchISO.
It can't run the latest FarCry smoothly.
If by "latest" you mean any of them, then yes.
i'll put linux on every laptop i can get my grubby little hands on
heh, GRUB
honestly, I wasn't even thinking about GRUB when I sad that, but lmao it works so well
Unintended puns are the best
LILO it works so well
Yes, but it already had Linux on it.
I am running Mint on a MacBook Air from 2008
How does it run? That's not your main machine, I hope.
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.
Why not mint there as well??
Can‘t run DaVinci resolve as good and a bunch of other reasons. MacOS can be pretty nice.
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 🤣🤟🏻
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.
Does it still run with a HD? Upgrading to SSD really accelerated mine.
I had also replaced the HDD with an SSD. :(
Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I'm working on projects. Works great.
Every computer I own runs Linux or BSD. I still use a Thinkpad X200T running Arch.
A fellow BSD fan =D
Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn't do anything while running Windows 10. Couldn't install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.
It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.
I install Linux.
Yes! I slapped Lubuntu on an HP Stream 13 not long ago. Works like a charm.
Well, usually I install Linux on new laptops that then become old.
But also, I distrohop , so I also install on old laptops…
Of course! And not even just laptops, I like to test/install Linux on about anything possible... I must know the answer to "Will it Linux?".
Anything I use exclusively runs Linux.
Hardware I pass down runs Linux.
The family computer runs Linux.
Kids school laptops and wife laptop run Windows.
You have some work pending in that case😂 at least 2 PCs in your house need an upgrade
You mean you haven't set up a PXE Boot auto installer for non Linux machines connecting to your network to be automatically upgraded yet?
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
Always! I don’t spend any money on computing devices anymore. I just collect the old laptops from my family and install arch or tumbleweed on them 😄
I install linux in my only laptop
I'm still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.
It's the only thing keeping my 08 Asus going RN. Lil bastard can't die on me. I won't allow it
I installed Mint xfce on my landlord's low-end laptop and some time later Mint Cinnamon on my wife's 2016 Lenovo which was starting to show the typical signs. Great experience for both of them. I mean, the laptops work, which is the least you should expect from something you paid 600 bucks for
I have Linux running on an Acer c710 laptop with an SSD duct-taped in the case. It just won't die.
I have a 2012 laptop running endeavour
everything that isn't my main machine runs linux. my old laptop from 10 years ago, a PC made of my old rig's parts i use as a NAS and jellyfin server, and i almost got my brother to install linux on his thinkpad.
"We have the technology to revive him."