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)

  • @Opisek@lemmy.world
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    628 days ago

    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”.

      • Echo Dot
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        27 days ago

        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.

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        227 days ago

        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.world
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          127 days ago

          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.

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      127 days ago

      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.