Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoI can add that in my experience, switching to Linux tends to have a positive impact on performance and keep the laptop usable for longer, I highly recommend you try it with your current laptop.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve got machines that are obsolete for even Windows 10 that run Linux just fine. The best time to start is now.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
what desktop environment do you run there? I guess that machine does not have much ram, so it must be something memory efficient
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve got an old desktop with a Core I7 with a 3 digit model number and 12GB of DDR3 RAM, it’s running Mint Cinnamon. I’ve got a Lenovo x86 tablet thing with 8GB of RAM and a Pentium processor, it’s currently running Fedora GNOME. I’ve run Ubuntu MATE on a Pi 4 as a desktop PC for about a year.
Most distros of Linux will run very well on a machine that ever ran Windows 7 acceptably. Prior to that, you start running into the “we’re discontinuing 32-bit support” problem.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
well I assumed your devices have 4 and such GB of RAM, but yeah at 8 GB memory efficiency is not a pressing problem.
like I have a laptop with 2 GB that runs windows 10 acceptably, there was a time when that was my main on-the-go setup. that memory is almost completely used up by just logging in to kde plasma. memory compression is of course not a choice with the cpu it has though