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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 00:28:26 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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