Ancestors

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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Toot

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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