• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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      1 year ago

      I would guess so. I’m running Mint on 15yo hardware. Chunky laptop, and DDR3 desktop. Between Mint and a SSD, the devices perform as well as current hardware on Windows 11.

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      Yes but it was still a P4 running Windows 7 Home Starter so whatever modern OS would choke on that anyway. I eventually gave her an old Phenom with a triple core but with the condition that it was running Linux Mint instead of Windows.

      I moved a few years ago but I’m still going to help her a few times a year to do the updates. It’s very low maintenance compared to Windows.