Why bother

But they will.
Hell, my computer illiterate mom could figure out how to use Debian without many instructions from me.

It's literally just "click that Chrome icon, then use the internet like you would on Windows".

Of course I had to download and install it for her, but that's a one-time thing

If you're just browsing internet, yeah, any linux distro can do it.

I gave my mum an old netbook I got in the netbook craze days

Put mint on it

She kept asking for Windows

Fucking casual

Windows would kill that poor netbook

Is it one of those Atom-powered netbooks?

Yeah it wouldn't allow going past 7

Screen not high enough res

I've still got one of them laying around. It's surprisingly decent with Chrome OS

Microsoft put a limit on that with 8

Trying to force kill netbooks

Talking about chinkputers, I was thinking about getting a LGA1366 rig with a 6cores xeon.

This was mine

Toshiba nb200

Ohshit, it looks chunky.

I mean, kinda inflated.

Xeons are nice

Obviously not thinking about overclocking, that would be stupid with a xeon.

Tfw always see old PCs in salvation army and want to buy them up for projects

Le old man daily drivers

Ay

I have 3 olds laptops, one taken appart and I have no idea what to do with them.

One of them is dead, one has been taken appart and the last one have a single-core CPU.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.

You've gotta cannibalise those parts my man

I had a Toshiba Portege r700 that got zombied into another laptop

Thinking about making some monitors with the screens though, for some shit.

17" and 15" screen, 1600 x 900 both.

And a 11" screen, 1366 x 768

17" might make a nice mini mame cabinet

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woops

I'm sorry, but why even bother? I've picked up monitors with the same resolution for free

If I could do so, that would be great. I live in a shitty area, there's only one computer/electronic shop here and it's the shitter.

Tfw friend wants to give me 3 broken 720p monitors, just a load of junk tbh