Every linux box (i have 4 on the go at the moment!) have been built from left over parts supplemented by whatever missing bits I could scrounge cheaply online. That's one of the fun parts of those projects getting the best bang for buck with your old components.
Building a Linux box
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Installed Ubuntu on a circa 2016/2017 Dell XPS laptop and has given it a fresh new life. I bought it 2nd hand but might try and replace the battery to get it running even better.
Even an old 2nd hand laptop works great, really depends if you have anything spare or what budget you have to use.
Even an old 2nd hand laptop works great, really depends if you have anything spare or what budget you have to use.
Aiming for a modern fully open source Motherboard with coreboot.
I'm dual booting mint again on the red PC in my sig...I'm so utterly sick to death of windows, and it's only going to get worse with the rumored subscription model for win12 - that can get in the sea.
I'm moving properly this time, and I'll just spin up my windows drive for the odd game that I have to, and put it to sleep again after a gaming session.
Mint is soo good at the moment for day to day usage, unless your gaming or have some random app that only works on windows, there's just no need for windows any more, at least, not as a main OS.
I'm moving properly this time, and I'll just spin up my windows drive for the odd game that I have to, and put it to sleep again after a gaming session.
Mint is soo good at the moment for day to day usage, unless your gaming or have some random app that only works on windows, there's just no need for windows any more, at least, not as a main OS.
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My sig PC (7700x, RTX5080) has been running sweetly on Bazzite. Everything's been plug & play which is surprising for an nVidia card. My only complaint is HDR isn't working in Helldivers 2 but I've spent zero time troubleshooting.
I have made the leap too for main PC and Laptop. I have a Windows installation on each (main PC for Battlefield 6, and laptop for BMW software) but neither get used, I'm probably just going to reclaim the disk space.
Windows is dead to me too. Feels good.
I was even runing forza horizon 5 on mint yesterday (via steam) ... it's seriously impressive - I even think the graphics look better, deeper somehow, but i'm getting a bit of occasional judder that i dont get under windows, but to say that's a microsoft game running on linux mint, out of the box, even my xbox pad works on bluetooth properly.
Microsoft can suck deez nutz lol
Agreed lol.
Graphics performance is very decent these days and zero fuss with Steam/Proton. My only wish would be AMD put some effort into bringing the Control Centre tools to Linux, but the Mesa driver is phenomenal at what it does out of the box.
Graphics performance is very decent these days and zero fuss with Steam/Proton. My only wish would be AMD put some effort into bringing the Control Centre tools to Linux, but the Mesa driver is phenomenal at what it does out of the box.