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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly by girvo on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @08:47AM (#29161632)
My non technical girlfriends main PC is a 2011ish iMac running Mint. She loves it, zero issues, has never even needed me to look at it. Surprisingly stable for how old a machine it is.

Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD at some point because the decade old spinning rust has to be on its last legs at this point.

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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly by dspillett on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:35AM (#29162258)
> Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD [for the] decade old spinning rust

I don't know if Mint's arrangement will be as sensitive to it as Windows, but when we swapped an old SSD of mine into a friend's laptop the boost it was enough to quickly take it from “this thing needs to go in the bin after a meeting with a lump hammer” to being her main workhorse.

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