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HuskyOffset

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3. Gotta love linux on old hardware

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 09:07 PM

Nov 2019

Free (libre) & open source software is awesome for those of us on a budget, with such a wide range of distributions & desktop environments you can find something to run well on pretty much anything. I just started a week-long trial of Manjaro+KDE Plasma and so far it's going pretty well.

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Beginning a round of computer upgrades [View all] bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 OP

Been rocking my First Gen i7 platform for almost 10 years ... mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #1

yeah! that's what I like to hear, bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #2

Gotta love linux on old hardware HuskyOffset Nov 2019 #3

Love libre bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #5

I run Fedora Workstation on a used laptop that i picked up. CentralMass Nov 2019 #4

Credit card size computer bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #6

Free Linux has been around a long time and I think it will continue be to for years to come. CentralMass Nov 2019 #7

Jaw-dropping bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #8