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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I gutted my old defunct laptop to get its CD Drive then bought a cheap convertor on aliexpress. Now it connects to my pc via USB.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    You coulda slapped Linux on that bad boy and gotten a few more years of life out of it

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Its defunct because a capacitor on the motherboard is fused. Don't worry I got Linux on my pc as well as Server

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Yeah and then just ripped the iso yourself without needing an adapter. Then plop it on a thumb drive or move it across the network.

    Thumb drive probably easier than a Linux virgin (as in, inexperienced with Linux...the other type is just redundant) figuring out network shares.

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