Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    3 个月前

    That’s probably okay if all you want to do is browse the web.

    But with an Intel celeron you’re not going to get very far even if you do have a more efficient operating system.

    • Opisek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 个月前

      Well it is a $20 computer. I can imagine it serving as someone’s introduction to Linux because “why not, it’s cheap enough for an experiment”.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          3 个月前

          You can make it work with group policy. I do whatever grandma wants.

          Also bold of you to assume grandma is tech illiterate. I’ve met some “grandma age” people who are absolute wizards with tech.

          • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 个月前

            Yeah the grandma I had in mind was the one that only uses her computer for bejeweled and to email you racist memes from Facebook.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          3 个月前

          If it’s a grandma it’s going to have to have enough RAM to hold the 984 Chrome tab she assists on having open at any one time. It’s going to need at least a terabyte of RAM.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        You can get better hardware for free

        Go to some companies in your area and ask for some old hardware. They probably have a bunch of 6/7/8th machines. They probably all have 8gb of ram and you can buy cheap sata SSDs that will vastly outperform a old beat up hard drive.

    • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Oof, the web isn’t as light as it used to be. Some websites won’t even OPEN now with <2GB of RAM. Yes, it is that sloppy.