“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by slim on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:27AM (#35450135)

You should try, say, Debian 12 on an old computer with encrypted disks. it's unusable

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by 5e92cb50239222b on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:58AM (#35450359)

How old is old? I use Debian on an 11-year old cheap laptop, and it runs fine. No GNOME, of course (it's the performance equivalent of Windows on pretty much any hardware).

The laptop was something like $300 back in 2012.

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by slim on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:48AM (#35465033)

without GNOME and disk encryption, of course you can run Debian on a toaster

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by julesnp on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:14AM (#35453590)

Encrypted disks would be the key issue here, older CPUs likely can't handle the encryption work required.

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