I’m sitting here in 2026 runnin Fedora 43 on a laptop from 2016, and honestly? It’s smoother than it has any right to be. My entire workflow lives in Brave and Obsidian, and this “old” i5 handles it like a champ. There is something deeply satisfying about taking a “boring” enterprise machine, slapping GNOME on it, and watching it run circles around modern hardware,It’s actually fuckin depressing that a 10-year-old laptop has better utility than 99% of the “pro” hardware being sold today.have a native Ethernet port and a full SD slot. Imagine that shit No $60 Amazon adapters dangling off the side like life support just to get a stable connection 🙄that’s what I call good hardware built to last.#r/Linuxmasterrace
Hello from late 2013 MacBook Pro with NixOS
my common suggestion for people looking to switch is throw linux on your last laptop if its in working condition and see how well it runs vs your newer one with windows.
I just stuck a new battery in my laptop for its 9th birthday. Still going strong with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
We need to keep old hardware alive and avoid e-waste when possible. What is your computer?
My wife’s upgraded 2012 MacBook Pro is no cknamed the beast as it’s so snappy running Fedora Workstation.
People talk a lot about software enshittification, but hardware enshittification is also a thing!
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.Dunno why you’re getting down-voted, this song fits perfectly.
Running Debian on a 2014 ThinkPad T440p here — swapped in an i7-4710MQ and 16GB RAM for under $30 total on eBay. Compiles code, runs containers, handles everything I throw at it.
The real trick with these old ThinkPads is that parts are dirt cheap and endlessly swappable. Battery dying? $15 replacement. Screen too dim? Swap in an IPS panel for $25. Try doing that with anything made after 2020.
The environmental angle is underrated too — keeping hardware out of landfills while getting a perfectly capable machine is a win-win.
Hell yeah! I’m typing this on a 2013 i7 Macbook air running LMDE 13 and it runs like a dream.
Wait you can run Linux on a macbook? 🤔
My 2013 Dell XPS laptop is still running beautifully with Fedora 43 too! Honestly, it’s amazing how much life a piece of old hardware can have with Linux running on it.
