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)

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    4 days ago

    runs great on older less powerful hardware

    better hardware support, not having to hunt down drivers

    I remember installing Linux on my old laptop. It took me half a day to find working drivers for my WiFi card. It’s probably better now but whenever I read stuff like this I call bullshit.

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      it’s a lot better now to the point you don’t even need to search for drivers. I can’t even recall the last time I had to search for drivers on Linux, it just has them and some people have even made drivers for the most obscure things that not even windows supports anymore. Hell a couple months ago I found a driver someone made for something called a “Dex Drive” which was an old dongle for Playstation Memory cards.

      Linux is 10x easier today. Even running windows programs is a hell of a lot easier and in many cases work the exact same way as on Windows. double click the exe, install it, you’re good to go.

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      WiFi cards were an iconic problem many years ago.

      Nowadays I almost never have issues with WiFi