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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

My 12 year old thinkpad is still my daily driver.

Speakers stopped working 5 years ago tho. Only BT audio out, now.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It's plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn't like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can't afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn't hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like your problem is Windows. Linux works much better on old hardware.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does Nvidia play better now with linux? I run a 14 yr old laptop (Asus k40in) but it's got Nvidia graphics, and it didn't work well last time I tried Linux on it. (several years ago now)

It's on 24/7, running win10 now and does ok, but I mainly use it for my yard cameras and light surfing when my main pc is busy doing other things.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

The current official Nvidia drivers seem to be pretty solid. AFAIK, they're not great at supporting older product generations, though. The open source drivers might work better, but that's definitely something you should find out before doing the installation.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[–] sverit@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I'm tired, boss.