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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 16:05

I'm trying out my daughter's old Acer Aspire E15 laptop, which is two laptops ago for her.

I long ago bumped the RAM from 2 GB to 8 GB just to make it work. CPU is an Intel Celeron N2830 (2.41 GHz)

She upgraded from Windows 8 to 10 at some point, and now I'm applying a ton of updates.

I just took Firefox from version 70-something to 135.0.

It still has the original 320 GB drive. I have other drives lying around, but It's probably not worth bothering unless I try to shove an SSD in there.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-06 at 16:08

I'm in need of a personal backup laptop. I imagine this would be a good Linux or OpenBSD machine.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-07 at 04:36

I'm a little stunned at how well this is running -- 10-year-old budget hardware with Windows 10.

Windows updates are still a total shitshow, but the performance I'm seeing is a lot better than I ever expected.

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Written by So many dynamos on 2025-02-06 at 16:17

@passthejoe It has been a while but I had a good experience with a System76 laptop that ran ubuntu

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Written by Serge from Babka on 2025-02-06 at 16:18

@passthejoe

Are you soliciting suggestions?

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