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).
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.
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.