What to do with an old laptop

[alienmothership]

This is such a cool idea! I think I'm going to try it myself, and I think this might be a great use case for arch linux. Thanks for sharing that.

completely anecdotal on my behalf, and it was only on one distro, but my 2013 macbook pro really did not enjoy fedora 43 and I could not get the wireless card to work in my attempt. I should go back and try another distro on this and on my 2009 macbook as well to see if my experience is any different.

interesting. i have a generic dell inspiron laptop currently that i got from BB, im currently running linux mint.

linux struggled with BT heavily on this machine, i couldnt listen to any audio without it skipping every 5 seconds.

eventually i swapped in a different wifi card and that fixed it

[BlazingCobaltX]

I wondered what to do with this 2012 Thinkpad I had from my sister. It worked perfectly fine with Fedora and it even had 8GB RAM, so I could probably make it a decent home server. And then I wondered: Do I even need a home server? Being honest with myself, I had to admit I don't need an additional piece of tech and reuse it just because it's wasteful otherwise.

My decision was ultimately to donate it to this organisation that gives impoverished people old but usable laptops. For me a luxury, for them a necessity. Maybe you can also consider this.