• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    Hold on to your butts.

    Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

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      21 hours ago

      That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines…

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      14 hours ago

      You can literally buy new thinkpads with ubuntu pre installed for $140 dollars off the price of a windows PC

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        11 hours ago

        That’s cool, but a lot of people (myself included) aren’t able to justify a brand new laptop. I can absolutely afford a new laptop…I just have no desire to buy one when older ones work just fine and have plenty of life in them.

        My current laptop is a T495 that I bought at a flea market two years ago for $100 and it still handles all of my needs completely fine. My kid is using a T470 I bought not too long before that for around the same price, and it does everything he needs too (though it could stand to handle Minecraft JE a bit better…but in fairness he installs nearly every mod he finds and I never really taught him about adjusting settings).

        If you aren’t doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.

        That said, his laptop speakers are blown…so maybe it’s time I start looking for an upgrade for me. Kids are good for that type of stuff. Still remember convincing my wife we needed to get him a Switch for Christmas…his first Christmas. I wouldn’t buy myself a switch…but for my 5 month old kid? Yeah he needs Breath of the Wild.

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          8 hours ago

          I got a Framework a little while back for this reason… The modularity of it means that I can upgrade it piecemeal as needed without having to buy a brand new laptop, or suffer with outdated hardware before I can justify buying a new laptop.

          It was not cheap though.