Sujet : Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 17. Jun 2024, 08:10:03
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RonB <
ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 00:28 this Monday (GMT):
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).
>
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.
Why backup? Do they last longer?
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Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3
Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3