Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"

GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or get a new laptop and switch to Linux!

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  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s what I’m doing. Framework for the win

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  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m already using linux, but my laptop is an older dell with a 5th? Gen i5 dual core. Still works fine, but i had to jankily push down on the keyboard ribbon cable with a piece of cardboard, still has sata ssd, screen could be nicer, bezels are an inch wide, etc. This an oportunity to get an uograde if companies are going to dump perfectly good hardware.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Valid. I just but PopOS on my Lenovo and it works perfectly. Hell I put it on an old surface book too and it works great lol

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m waiting for decent support for the snapdragon x elite chips. From what i can tell from discourse online it’s still a very rough experience with linux.

    I don’t want to drop £1500 on a laptop i can’t really use.

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• limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a computer in the basement that I pretty much only use for Zwift (an online cycling game). For whatever reason it doesn’t have that TPM chip, despite the fact that I bought it in 2021 or so. So it won’t upgrade to Win 11.

  But…it turns out Zwift runs great under WINE…so now it runs Debian with WINE. (Which probably wasn’t my best choice - should have gone with something a little more up to date - but it does work.)

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