Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3

On 2024-06-16, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-06-16 18:14, Hunter wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:56:02 -0400
Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
 

Just finished installing it. It took an enormous amount of time as a
result of the slow HD on the machine and the fact that USB ports on
this thing don't support anything faster than USB 2.0. Still, it's
done. It's a usable computer again.

 
Great. Linux breathes life into old machines, but for extremely
low spec ones I prefer to have something like AntiX (mainly because
of the low memory footprint).

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It's not going to be a daily machine, so I don't really mind if it's a
little slower than it can be. It's clearly not very fast by today's
standards, but it does the job as it is.

Used SSDs are so inexpensive now that I can't imagine using hard drives for
anything but backup — even on old machines.

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