A Toshiba Satellite L645 laptop running Linux instead of Windows. It is very happy.

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   Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Sep-2025 04:13:37 JST Stephen Sekula

   I was for #endof10 before EndOf10 was for EndOf10 (technically, I am from the #EndOf95 generation 😃 ).

   This 14 yr old laptop belonged to my sister-in-law and was not going to survive the upgrade to Windows 11 ... it barely survived running 10. But it's perfectly fine hardware, especially after we put an SSD, high-speed wifi, and bluetooth in it to extend its useful life on Windows.

   Now it runs #Linux Mint #Debian Edition (LMDE) and it's very happy with a respectful OS on it.