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submitted 5 months ago by puck@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on the machines and making them somewhat usable for a web browsing experience for students? They’re useless as is, running ancient windows OS’s. We’re talking pre-7th gen i5’s and in some cases pentium machines here.

Might be pointless but wonder what you guys think?

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

passmark is not a real world application, so its scores are meaningless in the real world.

I have seen respectable communities outright ban any use or discussion of passmark or cpubenchmark type sites

[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

For me, it works just fine as a decision point. And real work usage of the computers I moved to Linux was very similar to what they report, they reflected just fine. So I don't see any point to not use it, or even more so, to not suggest it to others, when the discussion warrants it.

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