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If you’d rather have a Windows 7-like interface on your old computer, try installing Linux Mint.

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I Had the Laptop I eventually landed on installing Linux on an old laptop I had lying around instead of a Raspberry Pi simply because I already had it on hand.

Turn an old laptop into a Chromebook-Linux hybrid With a few minutes and a few free tools, you can resurrect nearly any aging PC with a fresh, fast, Chrome-like interface.

Turning an old laptop into a Chromebook can improve its UI and boost performance. Converting your old laptop to a Chromebook involves installing a lightweight Linux-based OS like CloudReady, which ...

Have an old smartphone lying around that you’re not using as a phone anymore? One hardware hacker decided to turn theirs into a mini-laptop. Prend Workbench shared the project in a YouTube video ...

If you've got a laptop that's sufficiently old, like this 2014 pile-up at a recycling program, or a bit "weird," you can help test it against proposed changes to the Linux kernel's backlight systems.

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Windows 10 support ends in October, and the company is telling millions of users their machines can’t support Windows 11. That’s simply not true.

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Your old laptop is a well of untapped potential. Here are five creative ways to repurpose it.