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From: Hunter <hunter2k1@disroot.org>
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Subject: Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:14:07 -0500
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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).