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  • Think about a linux installation on a removable usb drive or a CD or DVD.

    You won’t install Linux directly in your hard drive or whatever but in a removable device.

    With it you can boot your laptop in it and use it almost as if it was actually installed on your laptop. It will let you check for hardware compatibility and that sort of thing. Also it won’t be as smooth as if it was actually installed on your laptop but for the looks of it even that way you would notice a huge difference with whatever you have installed on your laptop right now.

    There are many linux flavors to test, and maybe people around here can give you better examples, but at the tip of my tongue right now there’s ubuntu or fedora, which have great hardware support by default.



  • By what you just told I can’t tell if you have ever tried a live distro with it. I hope you did, or if not, that you pick a distro of your liking and try it with your laptop.

    (My PC is about 7 years old and it’s still going as new, so I was shocked reading your comment - I completely forgot Windows/Mac really tax you for “old” hardware)








  • Some 20-25 years ago on a local radio FM station they used to run a “bumper” from time to time of a narrator saying that one time in WWII Nazi Germany sent a decrepit train full of excrement, trash and whatnot to neutral Switzerland, trying to tease them and make them join the war. In rensponse Switzerland cleaned, fixed and painted the train, put fresh food and flowers and everything and sent it back to Germany and in the engine they put a giant banner reading “each one gives the best of themselves” or something like that - pretty sure that story was just a myth but at those times when I heard it I wished it was true because it was so fucking funny.