I’m sitting here in 2026 runnin Fedora 43 on a laptop from 2016, and honestly? It’s smoother than it has any right to be. My entire workflow lives in Brave and Obsidian, and this “old” i5 handles it like a champ. There is something deeply satisfying about taking a “boring” enterprise machine, slapping GNOME on it, and watching it run circles around modern hardware,It’s actually fuckin depressing that a 10-year-old laptop has better utility than 99% of the “pro” hardware being sold today.have a native Ethernet port and a full SD slot. Imagine that shit No $60 Amazon adapters dangling off the side like life support just to get a stable connection 🙄that’s what I call good hardware built to last.#r/Linuxmasterrace

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Aside from one desktop that still has Win 7 Pro on it for various reasons, and is almost entirely an internal server, every single system I use is Linux. Has been this way for at least a decade. My current laptop came with Winblows 11 but I booted first time straight into a Kubuntu flash drive to install it. Never even had to see that ugly ass Winblows.

    I’ve got something running Pop, one running Debian, one has Elementary, I’ve got one with Bodhi, another with KDE Neon, one with Q4, and a variety of others.

    Fuck Winblows the OS that is one giant virus.

    Edit: oooh forgot my little guy running Kali. And also the dozen distros running in VMs on the Windows desktop.

  • brzrd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    My daily driver is a 2014 i5 machine with 4GB RAM, running Fedora 43 Sway (riced but no animations).

    It can simultaneously run Emacs, Librewolf 6-8 tabs (research), Helium 2-3 tabs (for email, calendar & cloud drive) and 1-2 desktop chat apps. If I flick on Freetube at this point, it’ll freeze up.

    I’ve got a pretty minimalist approach to work so I don’t have too many things running most of the time. I use mostly system packages and Flatpaks sparingly. I can keep running this thing as my daily driver for a few more years.

    Also stick a 27" display and a pair of 5" powered studio speakers into it in the evenings to enjoy some movie streaming.

    ps: I’ve recently configured another 12GB of virtual memory (?) on the SSD to support the 4GB RAM on the machine and that has significantly helped with multitasking.

    ps2: Sharing the above to encourage to try Linux out. I came to this with zero knowledge amd experience. Really amazing what’s possible.

    ps3: May be also good to mention that if first ran Linux Mint (with no optimisations or modifications) on this machine and only moved to Fedora a year later. Both distros worked flawlessly. If anybody is keen to know why I moved from Linux Mint to Fedora, please ask and I will share my experience.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    People talk a lot about software enshittification, but hardware enshittification is also a thing!