Some of these machines literally took 5 minutes to get from boot to watching a YouTube video, and now they can do so in a fraction of that time.

I’m super-interested in helping people reduce e-waste in my community now, and am wondering about how to go about advertising my willingness to help strangers restore their old/slow/Win11-ineligible machines. I wish I got over the fear of OS-wiping years ago!

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    The only thing I’ve run into on one of my machines is getting it to not let the lan go to sleep. My jellyfin server runs mint and it doesn’t have any issues falling asleep, but I was going to move some of my stuff to another machine so that old laptop wasn’t having to take all of the work and the second one seems to want to sleep even after modifying the config.d file. I must have overlooked something.

    • Dymonika@lemmy.mlOP
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      28 days ago

      Yeah, Mint makes the screen of an old iMac that I put on it go bonkers whenever it wakes up from “suspension” (which is apparently the Linux term for sleep); it becomes extremely bright with horizontal lines until the machine is restarted. I guess I could have tried to diagnose that… hmm.

    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org
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      26 days ago

      I’m not a sudo apt master. I don’t know shit about terminal or making Linux do stuff beyond wanting to point and click. Yes, it can run a sea worthy version of Photoshop.

      Let me break it down. I use a program called Lutris, installed from the software manager. Its technically a game launcher to collect all your games in one convenient area, letting me launch steam, gog, etc from one library. I install plenty of windows programs and obscure ones if I need them for my research. MaxQDA, SPSS for instance.

      There are few, if any, normal day-to-day use cases where Windows is better. Gaming, thanks to Proton, is not a problem. Drivers? Got those too. But what about x software? There’s a less bloated FOSS or low cost version out there.

      Just go for it.

      • CapedStanker@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Thanks man, this is a great answer, I guess Ill have to give it a go. I love to use hard to find art software to and mosh it all together, so that’s always been the big hold up with linux for me, plus win11 ltsc iot is pretty awesome, it didn’t even come with the snipping tool, much less ai, but I know eventually I need to switch. I did recently set up an openmediavault server, which was at times frustrating (due to what turned out to be a bad external hdd case…), but also rewarding. It’s been running really well ever since.

        manjaro kde was awesome last time I tried it, so Ill prolly give that a go again.

        Thanks again!