Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on the machines and making them somewhat usable for a web browsing experience for students? They’re useless as is, running ancient windows OS’s. We’re talking pre-7th gen i5’s and in some cases pentium machines here.

Might be pointless but wonder what you guys think?

  • yala@discuss.online
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    5 months ago

    As others have stated, reviving them through Linux should be a piece of cake.

    However, how many is “a tonne”? This is important information for the community to provide recommendations on administrating those systems.

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      5 months ago

      There’s about 15 machines. Not a huge amount, I was definitely exaggerating with ‘a tonne’ haha. I think it just feels like a big waste, hence the exaggeration 😅