Replying to your comment using super-safe-hotel-wifi in PG. This T420 laptop has a 120 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. Slackware64-15.0 runs well with XFCE.
Yeah, Linux is way too scary. Heh. I’ll be curious to hear how you like the newest ubuntu.
Try it! Gorgeous desktop, much snappier with Wayland and Gnome42.
Got a bit of occasional screen flicker, I bet the display itself IS the problem trying to install Windows on this laptop.
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Thanks. Will give it a look when we get home to Rupert. It sounds good. 
Just wiped Mint off that old Macbook… Ubuntu looks and feels much nicer.
I personally like Linux Mint’s xfce version more than Xubuntu these days. Just a better layout on the menus, and things look much cleaner and polished. But that’s just in the xfce world.
I’m currently trying out Kubuntu 22.04 right now, using a remote console from work to my home esxi server. I haven’t used KDE in years! So far so good!
What I really like about using these distros in a remote console, is that the universal copy-and-paste on macOS works. So I can copy some text from my iphone, for example, and it’s ready to paste into a linux distro, by magic
Figured out the wireless mouse lag problem on Ubuntu Pi versions. the cmdline.txt is in a different spot than RaspberryOS.
22.04 a little slow on the 4GB Pi4, but nothing a little overclock didn’t take care of.
So I listed the Ubuntu 2008 Macbook for $100 and get a text
“Is it better than my Surface Pro?”
OMG sold both the Ubuntu HP and Macbook today. And upgraded the Doctor’s old Toshiba to Win 10.
If you ever visit bring earplugs. The noise from people who squeak when they walk is unbearable!
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Awesome! Happy to hear that you unloaded the two units. I tried installing OpenBSD 7.1 on my T410 Thinkpad and it’s a no go. The CD doesn’t recognize my NIC. It feels odd to abandon OpenBSD after 11 years. I’m transferring the Ubuntu 22.04 iso onto a USB stick, going to install it on the Thinkpad.
Edit; added later. Installed Ubuntu and the unit refused to boot-up. AAArrrggghhh. Giving mint a try.
Linux Mint 20.3 up and running on the Thinkpad. The MATE edition is nice and snappy.
I managed to get OpenBSD 7.1 up and running in a VM on my Slackware64-current host. I gave it 15 GB of RAM so it runs well.
Many are talking about the newest Pop! 22.04.
Won’t install on a VM either. So much for that OS
Yeah I tried Popos in Virtual box and it didn’t work. That’s stupid.
Got Win 10 running on a 2008 Macbook. She didn’t “like” Ubuntu. Took 2 days to guess what sound driver it needed and she’ll never notice there’s stil a chipset, camera and bluetooth driver it can’t find.
Ubuntu found everything and worked perfectly instantly. But Linux isn’t ready for prime time.
Linus proved in his tech tips video on gaming with Linux. But of course he started with Pop! OS, fucked up a Steam install and blame “Linux”…
Crazy that you’re using a 14 year old computer and it’s still running great!
Yeah I enjoy his tech videos, but, Linus doesn’t like Linux as much as his assistants. Super cool you got Win 10 running on the old Mac.
Both the Ubuntu Macbook and the HP I yard sale’d for $80 each came back.
Ubuntu played YouTubes too slow on her Internet. So obviously the computer was defective.
The HP is coming back because it must have a virus. Everytime he clicks on a YouTube link posted on Facwbook, it goes to porn instead. Now whenever he opens Firefox, it goes to that same porn again. Obviously both the computer and Linux are no good.
Are ppl in Rupert that fucking stupid? And that fucking cheap they want to return yard sale and dollar store items?
You know yesterday the 600lb hepless lady across the street called me to fix her water filter. Didn’t know which way was on and off on the shutoff valves under the sink. Her friend changed the filter (it says do it every 3 months - so they can sell more filters) but she had no water, wanted me to go under her trailer and check the main. Because you know those city shutoff valves can mysteriously turn themselves on and off with no human and a huge special wrench even involved. Turned out the screen on her kitchen tap was gooped up.
The majority of people can’t even use their brains, no shit, it’s not some - it’s most
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There’s not a damn thing wrong with the HP. No page hijack, nothing. Works perfectly at my house.
But the guy’s dumb enough to offer to pay me to change it to Windoze so I will. Unfortunately for him, it won’t run Win 10 no matter what. Hope he likes 8.1
BTW you can’t do a fresh install of Win7 anymore the activation agent has expired. You need at least Windows 8
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I don’t mind Windows 10. Windows 7 was very good. So he’s opting for Windows 8 over Ubuntu?! Yech. I may take another run at Ubuntu on my T410 and try an alternate DE. The standard version of Ubuntu wouldn’t load X windows.
I attempted Ubuntu 22.04 Mate edition. No go on my old T410 Thinkpad. Woudn’t boot-up. Installed MX-21 Linux, a nice Debian derivative. Works well, all updated.
Your right, Win7 WAS good, was being the operative word. I even told people it was almost as good as OSX. But the laptop I got in 2014 has Win 8.1, so I added Classic Shell and found it even better.
Unfortunately this P.O.S. HP has given nothing but problems for 2 days now. Programs that fail on install, fail on uninstall, fail on download etc. etc.
Bloody missing api-milelong.dll that just won’t fix!
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