SO has been complaining about his (admittedly terrible) old laptop dying so I'm installing linux mint over the old Windows 10. He's not a tech-minded person so I'm keen to see what he thinks of it.

[–] bignoseduglyguy 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd be keen to hear the outcome. I have a sunsetted Chromebook and am keen to try Linux on it.

[–] Fizz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got a chromebook running arch with xfce. When I tried the chromebook related distros they were all broken.

[–] luthis 3 points 1 year ago

xfce helps get so much more mileage out of old hardware. It's one of my favorite desktop environments.

[–] bignoseduglyguy 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know.

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still running updates and installing a couple of extra drivers but it's definitely much snappier than what he had before. And his Logitech trackball now has a battery meter in the system tray, which it didn't on windows, so it's possible he'll end up preferring linux.