My wife has asked me not to turn the house into a tech junkyard.

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    17 hours ago

    My mom’s laptop self “upgraded” to win 11 a while back and she hates it and has been having issues nonstop. And since she refuses to pay a monthly subscription for office I set her up with Libre office. She’s been resistant to Linux but as I slowly add more FOSS apps she’s coming around. She’s now willing to try a Linux Mint live USB.

    I’m going to be on the lookout for one of these perfectly good laptops and throw Mint on it for her so she can keep her windows laptop until she’s ready to fully make the switch.

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      16 hours ago

      if you want a LOT of them, govdeals.com is a way to go. You might hate me for showing you that place. Its how I ended up with a great generator for my house as well as too many servers.

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        3 hours ago

        We need to do a group buy. I don’t want 62 laptops, but there might be 61 other people that want one more laptop…

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        7 hours ago

        I remember that site, looked into it a few years ago when I was buying in bulk to resale stuff on eBay. Thanks for the tip, but I’m really just looking for one laptop.

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      17 hours ago

      According to a lot of Lemmy users, this is impossible. Linux never works and windows is solid as fuck. Never fails to work perfectly. Lol

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        7 hours ago

        Someone told me on my previous instance, before it shut down, that no one actually used Linux, that everyone even me was just lying about using Linux.

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        15 hours ago

        Linux cannot even make the fans work most of the time. You would think it could at least do that. On windows they go all the time!