Old laptop working after 24+ hrs of fiddling
I have a 9yr old HP laptop that died on me last year. It was old so I bought a new one. Last week came time to do or die for the old one. It would take over 45 min to boot up and be dead slow after...
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ferretgrandpa wrote:
Next time try a Puppy Linux.
They are very small, run very clean, available as 32 or 64 bit, and can run from a usb or cd/dvd. HDD is not needed, and they are priced right at as in Free.
Only drawback is a couple of minor adjustments to the BIOS, which are reversable if you don't like them.
May as well just tell people to buy a MAC..
Linux is not 100% the same as Windows and neither is a MAC..
Not everyone is cut out to deal with the lack of a polished GUI or lack of driver and software support and command line use to install programs that is the basis of Linux.
Yes, there are some "look alike" software that is similar to software that runs on Windows but not all software is covered (IE no full on replacement). Can be fun to play with though.
