On 2024-08-03, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somebody on a subReddit mentioned they were given a Latitude D630 and that
> they were going to install Linux on it. Made me realize that I hadn't
> updated my D630, it was still running Linux Mint 18.3 (so, it was about a
> year and a half out of date). So I backed it up and installed Linux Mint 22.
> Full install and upgrade took about 25 minutes. It's actually faster than
> 18.3. Try that with Windows 11 on this computer.
>
> This particular D630 was originally shipped in February of 2008, has a Core
> 2 Duo CPU (i5-7500) and 4 GBs of RAM. It sleeps and wakes up when the lid is
> closed and is reopened, it runs YouTube in full screen (but at 480p, which
> is still not bad). So a completely usable laptop (for writing, browsing, and
> general use — not for game playing and probably not developing
> applications).
>
> One advantage of this old laptop is that it has a real keyboard instead of
> one of those flat, limited movement keyboards. It also has a CD/DVD
> reader/writer (which I'll probably never use again).
>
> Anyhow, just another advantage of Linux. Quite a few Mac users also install
> Linux on their older (out of support) machines.
>

I have a Thinkpad T43 running Debian 12, bookworm. This is a machine
from the mid 2000s, and it still runs Linux. Sure, I have to run a
light window manager, and web browsing is slow, but Libre Office, music
players, file managers, pretty much everything else except web browsing
runs well.

On 2024-08-08, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-08-03, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Somebody on a subReddit mentioned they were given a Latitude D630 and that
>> they were going to install Linux on it. Made me realize that I hadn't
>> updated my D630, it was still running Linux Mint 18.3 (so, it was about a
>> year and a half out of date). So I backed it up and installed Linux Mint 22.
>> Full install and upgrade took about 25 minutes. It's actually faster than
>> 18.3. Try that with Windows 11 on this computer.
>>
>> This particular D630 was originally shipped in February of 2008, has a Core
>> 2 Duo CPU (i5-7500) and 4 GBs of RAM. It sleeps and wakes up when the lid is
>> closed and is reopened, it runs YouTube in full screen (but at 480p, which
>> is still not bad). So a completely usable laptop (for writing, browsing, and
>> general use — not for game playing and probably not developing
>> applications).
>>
>> One advantage of this old laptop is that it has a real keyboard instead of
>> one of those flat, limited movement keyboards. It also has a CD/DVD
>> reader/writer (which I'll probably never use again).
>>
>> Anyhow, just another advantage of Linux. Quite a few Mac users also install
>> Linux on their older (out of support) machines.
>>
>
> I have a Thinkpad T43 running Debian 12, bookworm. This is a machine
> from the mid 2000s, and it still runs Linux. Sure, I have to run a
> light window manager, and web browsing is slow, but Libre Office, music
> players, file managers, pretty much everything else except web browsing
> runs well.

That's the way my Latitude D400 is. It will run Linux, but YouTube videos
have to be low resolution and loading Internet graphics is slow. Otherwise
for writing, playing music, email and just about everything else I do
(besides browsing) it works fine. Linux is a great way to make old computers
useful.

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