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Yep Core 2 duo processors are good and I have several desktops running them.
If you can up the memory to 8.0 GB you can increase the speed of that computer.
Look on ebay for some memory wade through the pages you can find good memory for cheap.

manyroads wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:50 am I have wished for years that there was an MX minimal version

Yep I agree a plain and simple bare minimal to just get the distro installed and then be able to choose and install only what the user wants and needs and nothing more would be great imo.


Thanks.

I feel that the best Linux distro is the one you are happy enough to use as your daily driver, the one that works as you expect/want on the equipment you use.

Agreed however I like and use several different Linux distros and have very few complaints with any of them on my old computers.


I ...

I check for updates every now and then but usually just wait until the update icon turns green figured that's what it's for.
I don't recall having any issues with updates installing.

The Wife just bought two Motorola Moto G tracfones from HSN for $59.99 each 1500 minutes / 1500 texts / 1500 MB data good for up to a year which is all we need we don't live on the phone or text much or do social media so they work well for us.

https://www.hsn.com/products/motorola-moto-g-pure-65 ...

I have actually washed of motherboards full of tar and nicotine with dish soap and a very soft paint brush and then set them in front of a fan for days and then then let them set in the sunlight for hours and have never had a problem with one.


Really? I've heard that nicotine/tar cannot be ...

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:57 pm got me, but I see the same. maybe the version available doesn't work with the current snap store. no clue.

https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:57 pm the maintainer left ubuntu some time ago, and I don't know if they replaced him.

https://news.itsfoss.com/unsnap-migrate ... o-flatpak/

I have actually washed of motherboards full of tar and nicotine with dish soap and a very soft paint brush and then set them in front of a fan for days and then then let them set in the sunlight for hours and have never had a problem with one.

In the 1960s and 1970s the Tektronix Oscilloscope ...

I'm using the new Debian based Peppermint OS it's rock solid and works well OOTB on my old Frankenstein desktop.

I tried getting all of this together and yes a lot of it works so well that I was unable to even use some accounts so yes it does work if a user has no need to access any accounts.

I also experienced the usable size of the desktop screen changing with all of the changes applied and it is annoying ...