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Preventing e-waste by selling old desktops with Linux due to low system requirements (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)

Image of an old desktop with paper taped into it saying "Why Linux instead of Windows"
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah that's at least an hour, assuming there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't mean time on the bench. I mean tech time working on it.

    Hook it up. Start diag. Poke a different system.
    Diag done? Passed? Start imaging with post kickstart or Ansible script. Work on a different box.
    Image done? Check drivers, updates and functionality checklist.

    If you had to do 100 of these you can get pretty good at it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly. I used to do the same thing about 15 years ago with Windows XP and Windows 7 computers. I didn't have a lot of space, so I'd get about half a dozen set up and go along them in a row running the installers. By the time I got to the end of the row, the first one would be about ready for me to click the next box. The vast majority of time installing an OS is waiting.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yep. Wrench time vs bench time was my thing. If you do 16 in a 8 hour shift that's 30 min a piece even if they take a few hours with diag, imaging, installs and updates.

    Once you get good you just doom scroll while you wait.

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