Have a guess which distro worked best with old hardware...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJWe5Fqo5d8
Restoring an old laptop with Linux
Re: Restoring an old laptop with Linux
and he does make comments about the need to Not Push Linux onto folks who don't want Linux.
so, to be cautious about who you do help out.
it's no surprise, that he chose MX as the replacement, but he could have use any of several other Linux systems, as well.
so, to be cautious about who you do help out.
it's no surprise, that he chose MX as the replacement, but he could have use any of several other Linux systems, as well.
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Re: Restoring an old laptop with Linux
A computer guy we know gave me an old broken laptop he took in as a part exchange that was built for Win Vista, using it right now with MX 17.1. Having to use an exterior keyboard and mouse and the battery is knackered - errr,worn out!
Mind, it's faster than my main one and graphics and ram are better. My main one is an Inspiron 1545.
Mx Linux is excellent and my preferred OS after ten or so years of using Mint. Also the help forum is MUCH more helpful here, whilst the experts are human beings not gurus with inflated egos.
Mind, it's faster than my main one and graphics and ram are better. My main one is an Inspiron 1545.
Mx Linux is excellent and my preferred OS after ten or so years of using Mint. Also the help forum is MUCH more helpful here, whilst the experts are human beings not gurus with inflated egos.
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System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon December 15 2017
Machine: Type: Portable System: Dell product: Studio 1537 v: A03 serial: <root required>
Mobo: Dell model: N/A v: A03 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A03
date: 09/22/2008
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0 Wh condition: N/A
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 bits: 64 type: MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2267 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 1931
Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-1-amd64 LLVM 3.9.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD RV620 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3450/3470/3550/3570] driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:16:ea:60:9c:5e
Device-2: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:70:83:60:d8
Device-3: Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card type: USB driver: btusb
Drives: Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 50.61 GiB (17.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320320AS size: 298.09 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 290.41 GiB used: 50.61 GiB (17.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: 31.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 mobo: 7936 fan-2: 0 fan-3:
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/mxlinux/antix/stretch/ stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://mirror.positive-internet.com/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://mirror.positive-internet.com/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/mxlinux/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 188 Uptime: 2m Memory: 3.85 GiB used: 418.0 MiB (10.6%) Shell: systemd
inxi: 3.0.25
Re: Restoring an old laptop with Linux
MX is my go to distro when I want a distro that installs quickly and will work on everything. I still like vanilla Debian, but MX is hard to beat.