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Over the past month, I've put Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" on 4 machines and all the owners are happy (with one of them being me) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Dymonika@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Some of these machines literally took 5 minutes to get from boot to watching a YouTube video, and now they can do so in a fraction of that time.

I'm super-interested in helping people reduce e-waste in my community now, and am wondering about how to go about advertising my willingness to help strangers restore their old/slow/Win11-ineligible machines. I wish I got over the fear of OS-wiping years ago!

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[–] CapedStanker@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

yeh, but will my sea worthy version photoshop run on it? 🏴‍☠️

[–] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not a sudo apt master. I don't know shit about terminal or making Linux do stuff beyond wanting to point and click. Yes, it can run a sea worthy version of Photoshop.

Let me break it down. I use a program called Lutris, installed from the software manager. Its technically a game launcher to collect all your games in one convenient area, letting me launch steam, gog, etc from one library. I install plenty of windows programs and obscure ones if I need them for my research. MaxQDA, SPSS for instance.

There are few, if any, normal day-to-day use cases where Windows is better. Gaming, thanks to Proton, is not a problem. Drivers? Got those too. But what about x software? There's a less bloated FOSS or low cost version out there.

Just go for it.