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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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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libre Office 5.2 seems to have been released in August 2016.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And a reverse image search shows the picture of at least as old as 2017

    Edit: still not enough ram. 4gb, maybe, at a minimum, for this type of thing. Even Linux has it's limits if you're trying to get anything done in reasonable time on the modern web

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