Hello. I bought a new computer recently, and the computer I’m replacing is still good, but it only works as a tablet now. I’m considering putting Linux on it, but would it be worth it or should I get rid of my old computer? Thanks!

  • JerkyIsSuperior@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You haven’t given any useful info. What are the specs? What do you plan to use it for? Media? Gaming? Data storage? Please be more specific.

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    1 year ago

    Mint MATE is good for old computers, but I wonder you’d need to configure the tablet-like “touch” input manually and that could be some work.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I’ve found touch input to work OOTB in most cases, what I’ve had issues with though is screen orientation detection 😟

      It’s pretty difficult to poke around with when the tablet is slow, I peronally gave up trying to create a new rotation config for an older Atom tablet

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    1 year ago

    You should be able to boot from an SD card, a USB drive, or a CD to try out Linux without actually installing it on your computer’s hard drive.