Old laptop got boosted. Wasn't updated for 6 years. Microslop tried to install Win11, then said buy new hardware, then tried to install anyway. Didn't worked. Zorin OS works great. Will also try out Lint Cinnamon, Cachy, Pop and some Arch.

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[–] 83 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Ah yes, Minux Lint. Great distro.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I just wish everything wasn’t upside down. Its very confusing to use the mouse.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    how is everything upside down? is this some meme I'm unaware of?

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I just put Linux Mint Cinnamon on an old MacBook and it's running pretty well. I had an SSD that I could use and an extra RAM (total of 3GB now), and it made all the difference. Planning to get two 4GB RAM cards to max it out, yay for old memory that's still cheap.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago

    don't bother distro shopping. if it's mainstream and has updated packages the only thing you lose by changing distros is time. almost everything u want can be done in your distro.

    I use arch, btw

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I got Q4OS on a 20 year old machine. Runs flawlessly

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Nice. Zorin has quickly become my favorite distro. Has exactly what's needed out of the box, caters to practically anyone, smooth and easy to use. They do such a great job.

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    Cinnamon DE looks very...2008, yeah. Mint is also the only Stable distro for me to make it not just through installation from a live USB but actually install and load non-free nshitia drivers on an old GTX1060 with a corei5 7600. CachyOS is what I use and adore normally but I needed Stable for an infrequently used old PC. You'd think the main culprit would be the damned 1000 series GPU but nope that was only true for Debian and LMDE which I gave up on instead of fighting with. Figured it'd be faster to distro hop...nope!

    OpenSUSE couldn't handle the MSI B250 motherboard of all things, crash kernel panic couldn't even boot into live USB. Fedora complained about missing CPU instructions but loaded live USB except the installer app would just crash when trying to open it. MX Linux would boot but then black screen after 5 minutes, not enough time to install non-free drivers and not even ttyl mode was functional.

    Zorin was next on my list I'm curious to see lol. Linux hates this PC.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you want to game in it, check out Cachy, maybe.

    Otherwise, no point distro hopping.

    You can check out his the others look/work btw at Distrosea

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Linux Mint is definitely a plus, as it is easy to use and more free than Ubuntu and definitely more free than Zorin. It's also vintage enough to run on older computers just fine, though I recommend MATE or XFCE spin for the RAM poor

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Loving Zorin. I have Zorin on my second desktop and mint on my laptop.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Great distro! Pretty and most everything just just works.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Fedora+i3 brrrrrr

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Is it named after Max Zorin?

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