Grant_M

The latest Zorin is slick. Love it.

Upgrade to Linux! :D

This is the way

No free speech for people opposing the terrorist Putin regime

Apple, Google, Microsoft all worthy of a massive boycott.

Damned right we are!

Got my upvote for the heck of it

Mint BTW

Bodhi! Another I’ve found to be lean is Zorin Lite

Check out Floorp. It’s based on Firefox, but has a lot of other functionality. Maybe it has what you’re looking for! https://floorp.app/en/

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Always! Recently, I’ve been dabbling with Floorp. Based on FF. It’s quite nice! https://floorp.app/en/

DDG rules

On Mint everything updates automatically for me, Flatpaks and all.

I’ve never met a Thinkpad that didn’t like Linux :)

The first thing is to get a total of 4 GB ram (looks like the max for this cpu) into it and an ssd. These are both very cheap atm. See if there’s a video available for your particular model on the internet about getting into the case for the upgrade. Install a lightweight Linux distro. I have a similar 11 year old laptop and it’s working nicely for browsing/video play etc. with Zorin Lite. Good luck!

We did it!

If you don’t mind used, RX 460/560 will do what you need and don’t require any power from a PSU. There are loads of them on Ebay for well under 100. Now that I’m looking, the RX 570s are well below 100 now as well. Good time to get an ultra budget Linux gaming machine built. But those require an 8 pin PSU lead, I believe.

Cool! I might give this a shot just for a hobby/challenge and to learn. I’ve never dabbled in this kind of thing before.

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