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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh for sure, it’s just explaining that to boomer management that’s tough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I would just tell them, "look, Microsoft, the people who made this software, are telling us to never connect it to the internet again because it's insecure and will get viruses. Our only options are to either pay for new licenses for their latest OS for each machine (which probably isn't even compatible with the old hardware) or install a completely free OS that is open source and will promote tech literacy with our students."