• southernbrewerEnglish
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    I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.

    She’s ended up with her same 8 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

    This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

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      Go for tumbleweed, it’s supporting wide range of architectures (including even powerpc so you can still use powerpc macs) and it’s rolling release distro on top of that

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        Are you talking about OpenSUSE?

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        I’ve been on fedora for quite awhile, what makes tumbleweed better or unique? might try it sometime

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