Of course. A large part of my network infrastructure is old laptops running various Linux distros.
Well, my macbook pro from 2009 is 64bit and normally uses efi but in order to get the nvidia GPU running I had to force it to boot grub2 using legcy Bios by using a CDrom for the ArchISO.
Definitely not. But still okay for browsing and mail. My main machine is a 27” 5K iMac from 2014 that is running MacOs Sonoma under open core.
Can‘t run DaVinci resolve as good and a bunch of other reasons. MacOS can be pretty nice.
I see, I give macOS another shot on my newly acquired 2013 retina MacBookPro (pf course for free). And is it only to finally get my TOTP out of apple keychain 🤣🤟🏻
I replaced the battery and RAM on a Macbook Pro 8,1 running Pop_OS recently and the damn thing didn't even work better. The battery still only lasted around an hour or two on medium brightness and YouTube @ 720p. Absolutely garbage, and it really made me feel like a fool for spending the extra money on that damn thing.
Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I'm working on projects. Works great.
Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn't do anything whike running Windows 10. Couldn't install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.
It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.
Of course! And not even just laptops, I like to test/install Linux on about anything possible... I must know the answer to "Will it Linux?".
Well, usually I install Linux on new laptops that then become old.
But also, I distrohop , so I also install on old laptops…
Always! I don’t spend any money on computing devices anymore. I just collect the old laptops from my family and install arch or tumbleweed on them 😄
Anything I use exclusively runs Linux.
Hardware I pass down runs Linux.
The family computer runs Linux.
Kids school laptops and wife laptop run Windows.
You mean you haven't set up a PXE Boot auto installer for non Linux machines connecting to your network to be automatically upgraded yet?
It's the only thing keeping my 08 Asus going RN. Lil bastard can't die on me. I won't allow it
I'm still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.
I have Linux running on an Acer c710 laptop with an SSD duct-taped in the case. It just won't die.