Do you install linux on old laptops?

”I can fix him."

Of course. A large part of my network infrastructure is old laptops running various Linux distros.

Define "old".

i'll put linux on every laptop i can get my grubby little hands on

Yes, but it already had Linux on it.

I am running Mint on a MacBook Air from 2008

Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I'm working on projects. Works great.

Every computer I own runs Linux or BSD. I still use a Thinkpad X200T running Arch.

how else am i supposed to use a 10yr old laptop without wanting to punch it to death?

Got a 10 year old laptop that couldn't do anything whike running Windows 10. Couldn't install Windows 11 because no TPM chip. Was about to replace it when I thought screw it and gave Linux a go.

It now runs as smoothly as the day I got it, and am now a Linux convert.

I install Linux.

Well, usually I install Linux on new laptops that then become old.

But also, I distrohop , so I also install on old laptops…

Yes! I slapped Lubuntu on an HP Stream 13 not long ago. Works like a charm.

Of course! And not even just laptops, I like to test/install Linux on about anything possible... I must know the answer to "Will it Linux?".

Always! I don’t spend any money on computing devices anymore. I just collect the old laptops from my family and install arch or tumbleweed on them 😄

Anything I use exclusively runs Linux.

Hardware I pass down runs Linux.

The family computer runs Linux.

Kids school laptops and wife laptop run Windows.

It's the only thing keeping my 08 Asus going RN. Lil bastard can't die on me. I won't allow it

I'm still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.

I install linux in my only laptop

I installed Mint xfce on my landlord's low-end laptop and some time later Mint Cinnamon on my wife's 2016 Lenovo which was starting to show the typical signs. Great experience for both of them. I mean, the laptops work, which is the least you should expect from something you paid 600 bucks for

I have Linux running on an Acer c710 laptop with an SSD duct-taped in the case. It just won't die.

I have a 2012 laptop running endeavour

"We have the technology to revive him."

everything that isn't my main machine runs linux. my old laptop from 10 years ago, a PC made of my old rig's parts i use as a NAS and jellyfin server, and i almost got my brother to install linux on his thinkpad.