You can literally buy new thinkpads with ubuntu pre installed for $140 dollars off the price of a windows PC
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Hold on to your butts.
Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months 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…)
If you aren’t doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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of it means that I can upgrade it piecemeal as needed without having to buy a brand new laptop, or suffer with outdated hardware before I can justify buying a new laptop.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Oh I misread that and thought you said they thinkpads themselves were $140 lol
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
Very good point!
phx@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines…
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.
PixelPinecone@lemmy.today 3 months ago
This seems much more likely lol
Retropunk64@lemmy.world 3 months ago
…that’s why you turn them into Linux machines.