Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on the machines and making them somewhat usable for a web browsing experience for students? They’re useless as is, running ancient windows OS’s. We’re talking pre-7th gen i5’s and in some cases pentium machines here.

Might be pointless but wonder what you guys think?

    • setVeryLoud(true);
      7·
      6 months ago

      They’re over 10 years old at this point, Windows 10 released in 2015, 9 years ago.

      Unfortunately, yes, we are old!

    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      I left windows as xp got replaced with 7.

      If I were to install Windows as a dual boot, that’d probably be my choice (xp).

      My current machine was a 7, but the previous owner had installed Ubuntu by the time I bought it. It’s slow enough, there’s no way I’d put myself or the computer through running windows.

      Yes, I was born before the Internet was.