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E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends
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Go Linux without a doubt. The hardware is still usable.
My 10yo netbook runs the latest Debian Linux. If it was running on its original OS (XP) it would not only crawl but be dangerously vulnerable.
Wow, pretty unbelievable a netbook was still being sold with XP in 2015 lol. How'd you come about getting that?
Precisely what I am doing. Too many devices that still do what I need simply to ditch just because Windows 10 is EOL. I'm a bit over half-way in my migration (still have a few programs to sort out - may have to run a W10 VM for a couple of them as they don't work under WINE and there is no Linux equivalent).
My desktop is a 2012 lenovo office machine. Fresh SSD, wifi card, and an... OK graphics card have had the thing purring for me since 2018.
What if the SSD and everything else are 9 years old? Is that worth risking data loss over?
If it's that valuable, you should have backups anyway.
And chances are it's all cloud work that they're doing on the computers.
With the age of those computers you might even be looking at a HDD. Those should definitely be replaced, SSDs, it depends.
In any case a new 128G SDD is on the order of 15 bucks, well worth the investment even for an age-old system (unless you have a bit more extra cash because the GB/buck optimum is in the 0.5-2T range).
Well, an additional problem with this Lenovo ThinkPad is that its "A" key is coming loose if not pressed on the rightmost side. I've also dropped it 3x from over a foot's distance (knocked off a table, etc.), which damaged its Bluetooth receiver. So I'm wondering if it's even still worth maintaining...
It's definitely got 2×256 GB SSDs in it, though they're also all from 2016-17, hence my predicament of sorts...