• XLE@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    Pretty funny comment at the bottom

    You forgot the purpose that the vast majority of people who owns Windows 10 computers are doing with them - using them as computers.

    There is absolutely no reason to reduce your computer to a linux box, or make any of these toys. If your Windows 10 computer is working fine, doing what you need, keep using it.

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      11 hours ago

      Linux is the way to go if you want to get a few more years out of your hardware.

      Not Windows, but I got an almost new laptop out of a MacBook by putting Mint on it (and $15 of more RAM). Its biggest drawback is how much heavier it is than anything new. My next target is jailbreaking an old Chromebook I have.

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        2 hours ago

        Just did the same thing with a 2015 Intel MacBook Pro. It runs great, had some issues with screen flickering but I think it was only happening while using Remmina for RDP and it seems to have gone away by excluding Remmina from display scaling (retina display). So far pretty good battery life too…

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        5 hours ago

        Which model MacBook please? I need a new project as my old Lenovo Ideapad is dying. And I might still be able to use Snow Leopard.