andrew6297
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If you have an old laptop or computer that is unbearably slow that you're going to throw away, you might not have to, windows and mac are notorious for running slow on older computers, linux not so much.
If all you need is to use the internet, write documents/emails/steam games, install Ubuntu on it and you might find it's still plenty fast for what you need.
I've done this for a couple of friends 10yo laptops recently and they've gone from taking 2 minutes to open the browser to being fast enough to even play games.
Of course not everyone likes Ubuntu, it's closer to mac than windows, but if you were done with the computer anyway it's nothing lost if you don't like it.
Of course remember to back up your stuff first, changing OS will wipe your data.
https://ubuntu.com/desktop
If you're not comfortable installing linux, grab a stray teenager or millenial
That all said, if you consider yourself technologically illiterate, this may not be for you, Linux has some quirks that take getting used to like how middle click pastes the last text you selected, but hey, it's not so slow...
If all you need is to use the internet, write documents/emails/steam games, install Ubuntu on it and you might find it's still plenty fast for what you need.
I've done this for a couple of friends 10yo laptops recently and they've gone from taking 2 minutes to open the browser to being fast enough to even play games.
Of course not everyone likes Ubuntu, it's closer to mac than windows, but if you were done with the computer anyway it's nothing lost if you don't like it.
Of course remember to back up your stuff first, changing OS will wipe your data.
https://ubuntu.com/desktop
If you're not comfortable installing linux, grab a stray teenager or millenial
That all said, if you consider yourself technologically illiterate, this may not be for you, Linux has some quirks that take getting used to like how middle click pastes the last text you selected, but hey, it's not so slow...