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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:10:03 -0000 (UTC)
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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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