Buying old laptops for linux

[u/ComprehensiveGap177]

[u/HumonculusJaeger]

Reapply the therman paste or Thermal Pad cause after 10 years its getting hot under the hood.

[u/azangru]

It's a bit of a shame if linux on a 10-year-old laptop runs faster than linux on a new laptop :-)

[u/Exciting_Contest_222]

Reminds me of my auntie who buys a 15in macbook pro just to watch youtube and go on facebook. Doesn’t even have an iCloud subscription.

I tried to recommend her other brands for her use case, but she still wants apple

[u/Grreatdog]

Who buys them? I've dumpster dived all my personal computers since using Puppy to resuscitate a cast off company laptop in 2003.

Unless we count the Raspberry Pi that I played with for a while during COVID, The last computer I bought was a Gateway back around 1995.

[u/inlawBiker]

3-4 years old is my sweet spot and age it to 10 years myself. 10 years, I worry about parts and batteries and how to get new ones.

I was looking at refurb Dell Latitudes 7-series on eBay, $500 for a loaded machine that will last a decade on Linux. Who the hell is buying new hardware today, it's insane.

[u/CyclingHikingYeti → u/inlawBiker]

Dell Latitudes

Why not Precision series ? Excellent build and quality.

[u/sheba716 → u/inlawBiker]

I bought a refurbished Dell laptop and installed Ubunto on it. Works great.

[u/stprnn → u/inlawBiker]

I'm currently running a 8 year old dual core CPU with no issue and only because I dropped my Lenovo t20.

When the battery dies I'll replace it

[u/A4orce84]

I just bought an old Thinkpad a few weeks ago for this very reason!

[u/drKRB]

Same

[u/Tacolord38]

Bout to jump on this, on a T530. What would you guys recommend. Ommarchy? Graphene? Kali?

[u/Mr-Chale]

Crei que eso se hacia solo en el sur global jaja. Linux conectando personas, ❤️Ubuntu.

[u/MaoYixiong]

WiFi6 and type C charging are basic requirement.

[u/gigoloJack82]

That's what I have been doing the entire last week. I feel the speed of Linux (Ubuntu). 🔥

[u/47of74]

I bought a cheap HP laptop for about $150 for my last overseas trip. It was almost unusable with Windows and there was almost no free space at all on the laptop's drive. I wiped the laptop and installed Ubuntu. The laptop runs so much better with Ubuntu and uses less than 1/2 what Windows did.

[u/taker223]

Buying?

[u/HumansAreIkarran]

My MacBook broke, so I bought a used Thinkpad, that cost less than the repair of the MacBook, and it is running superb

[u/Geekmaster-General]

Yep. Been doing this for 30 years now lol. All sorts of tech, not just laptops!

[u/Suspicious_Second774]

old laptops, yes, especially with omarchy now