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Written by Ted C. Howard on 2024-12-11 at 05:12

I have an old HP Stream laptop I’m getting ready to try to sell. I just did a fresh install of Windows 10, but it fills all the internal storage. It’s unable to run updates because there’s no available disk space.

So, I’m thinking, maybe I should install Linux on it. That’s what I had on there before. My question is what distribution?

If you were prepping a machine to sell, what would you install on it?

[#]linux

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Written by Ted C. Howard on 2024-12-11 at 05:15

My preferred distro is #slackware, but I don’t think it’s the right choice for something that someone else is going to use.

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Written by Fred Brooker on 2024-12-11 at 05:31

@tedchoward oh Jesse 😂 😂 😂

just put on something, true Linux user will reinstall it immediately

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Written by tootbrute on 2024-12-11 at 05:40

@tedchoward i would consider an immutable distro like Bluefin (fedora based)

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Written by tootbrute on 2024-12-11 at 05:43

@tedchoward whoa but are these the specs for the thing?

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/hp-stream-11-2021

4 GB of RAM and only 32 GB drive? bit tight but i've run Bluefin on 4 GB of RAM. it's usable. you just can't open too many apps.

do you know how to use Nix? this seems like a neat project. i tried it before.

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook

but this would probably need you to do occasional support for them

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Written by Fred Brooker on 2024-12-11 at 05:30

@tedchoward Ubuntu 24.04.1

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Written by Santiago Lema :amiga: on 2024-12-11 at 10:04

@tedchoward If the machine is crumbling under weight of modern software then maybe just Debian bookworm with Gnome for simplicity.

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Written by mhd on 2024-12-11 at 10:45

@tedchoward Honestly, I'd probably leave it on Win10, and make a note about it in the description (if the marketplace something ebay/craigslist-like, not a linux forum or hashtag)

Seller is either able/willing to upgrade the storage or install Linux themselves.

And so it shows that it can run Windows 10, whereas there's no value in showing that something can run Linux, as anything with more compute power than a badger can do that.

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