Some of these machines literally took 5 minutes to get from boot to watching a YouTube video, and now they can do so in a fraction of that time.
I’m super-interested in helping people reduce e-waste in my community now, and am wondering about how to go about advertising my willingness to help strangers restore their old/slow/Win11-ineligible machines. I wish I got over the fear of OS-wiping years ago!
The only thing I’ve run into on one of my machines is getting it to not let the lan go to sleep. My jellyfin server runs mint and it doesn’t have any issues falling asleep, but I was going to move some of my stuff to another machine so that old laptop wasn’t having to take all of the work and the second one seems to want to sleep even after modifying the config.d file. I must have overlooked something.
Yeah, Mint makes the screen of an old iMac that I put on it go bonkers whenever it wakes up from “suspension” (which is apparently the Linux term for sleep); it becomes extremely bright with horizontal lines until the machine is restarted. I guess I could have tried to diagnose that… hmm.