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I installed Linux for a couple old ladies. Debian (Mate) on old desktops so they could browse the web and write. Zero issues. Fast and dead stable. They love it

• girvo 5y ago
  My non technical girlfriends main PC is a 2011ish iMac running Mint. She loves it, zero issues, has never even needed me to look at it. Surprisingly stable for how old a machine it is. Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD at some point because the decade old spinning rust has to be on its last legs at this point.
  • dspillett 5y ago
    > Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD [for the] decade old spinning rust I don't know if Mint's arrangement will be as sensitive to it as Windows, but when we swapped an old SSD of mine into a friend's laptop the boost it was enough to quickly take it from “this thing needs to go in the bin after a meeting with a lump hammer” to being her main workhorse.