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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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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well it is a $20 computer. I can imagine it serving as someone's introduction to Linux because "why not, it's cheap enough for an experiment".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can get better hardware for free

    Go to some companies in your area and ask for some old hardware. They probably have a bunch of 6/7/8th machines. They probably all have 8gb of ram and you can buy cheap sata SSDs that will vastly outperform a old beat up hard drive.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Or not inflicting windows 11 on grandma.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can make it work with group policy. I do whatever grandma wants.

    Also bold of you to assume grandma is tech illiterate. I've met some "grandma age" people who are absolute wizards with tech.

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