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Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon by zaarn on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:05AM (#16535633)
There is plenty of old hardware that won't properly work for modern linux distros, either by missing firmware packages or software not running on the CPU anymore (such as on an old Thinkpad of mine from 1998, modern distro's don't properly run, a lot of stuff fails with invalid opcodes or segfaults. An ancient copy of knoppix runs (with kernel 2.3))

Even then, most people don't buy with "it must run linux" in mind, they grab whatever has good sounding numbers on it.

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Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon by StudentStuff on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:36PM (#16541006)
Heh, wasn't thinking of going that old, more like a Thinkpad T430 (can be had for $150) or newer depending on budget. Any of that line will run your distro of choice without issue.
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