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  • I know you mentioned System76, but I thought an anecdote of the gazelle 15 I bought during covid would help.

    It’s the 2021 model with a 10th-gen i5, 16GB DDR4 RAM, a cheap 256 nvme SSD, and a GTX 1660ti for $1300. Very good laptop that I’ve used the hell out of since then. Has an excellent 120hz IPS panel (1080p) that’s just buttery smooth, and using pop_os on it has been very stable, even with all their firmware updates including the switch to coreboot for their UEFI. Plays all the games I needed to when I was away from home, and the keyboard is one of the best I’ve typed on, on a laptop.

    Now my only issue with it, is the shell, which was not entirely metal as I was led to believe. It’s got some pretty cheap plastic for the bottom side that feels like it will crack if dropped even from a short height. I THINK this has been changed in newer models though, as they were using rebranded Clevo laptops for their chassis. Still, I hate that it’s half nice brushed aluminum looking metal and half brittle plastic housing a VERY (at the time) expensive parts. It’s the only flaw

    Does this change my mind on buying System76? No, because I’ve seen their newer stuff and it’s made leaps and bounds from my laptop in just a couple of years, and I absolutely plan on buying a beefier Oryx Pro or something on the future. They’re excellent Linux machines







  • For the 32-bit machine, Debian 12 with XFCE or LXQt. There’s lighter desktops but those get outside of noob territory.

    I did this with an old server at work recently, it’s an old 2GB DDR2 single-core 32-bit VIA CPU. It’s maxes out at 2GB because it only has a single RAM slot, but despite this it’s ok with Debian 12. You get to have modern software on “e-waste”.

    For the others, try to bump them up to at least 4GB of RAM, 8 preferably, and throw Linux Mint on them. Either the XFCE edition or the flagship Cinnamon desktop, it’s very performance even on older hardware I’ve found.

    And if you really want to make them feel faster. Ditch those hard drives and get some cheap SATA SSD’s. It makes all the difference in the world.

    EDIT: spelling mistakes



  • hellodubtoLinux@lemmy.mlDebian 12 "Bookworm" released
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    Same, all of my servers here at home and at school (IT department) are Debian 11, but I’m gonna wait for a little bit before pulling the trigger. I might use one of the less important ones to upgrade idk.

    That being said, I have damn near zero reason to think they’ll have problems upgrading to 12. It’s why I pick Debian for every computer. Thanks Debian :)