I have been gifted a few ancient laptops from the stone age (2005-2014). Any ideas on what I can do with them? Are there any modern Linux distros that would run on old hardware like this? I’ll take any suggestions this wonderful community has to offer.
Edit: The laptops are:
- HP 2133 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2133_Mini-Note_PC
- Dell Inspiron 1545 https://www.itechguides.com/product-specs/dell-inspiron-1545-specs/
- Dell Inspiron 15 3537 https://www.productindetail.com/pn/dell-inspiron-15-3537
- Toshiba C55-A5286 https://www.productindetail.com/pn/toshiba-satellite-c55-a-1n4
oh so laptops from 1990s? cool i love to have one actually
excuse me? what? 2014 is ancient? fr? am i this out of touch?
(im not old, new technology pricing is just too much for me. im still stuck in 2016 hardware wise).
Me crumbling to old person dust when a gen alpha calls Windows 8 an ancient OS.
My bad I didn’t mean for people to catch strays lol. I’m ‘old’ relatively speaking age wise. I just meant how tech older than 5 years is considered old. I could go on a rant on how wasteful and stupid that concept is but unfortunately its the way of the world today.
Nah, you’re good. Oldest PCs I still have are a bunch of beige boxes with Windows 2000 still on them and an Inspiron 9400 with Windows 7.
Right? These laptops dont even have floppy drives.
our computer still had a floppy drive until around 2016 i think. good times. unfortunately everything we had on floppy was for DOS not windows xp and i was just a kid so i didn’t know how to get DOS working.