Hi, I’m currently on a MacBook Air M2 8/256 and I’m running out of disk space. System is too large. I love macOS but I’d love to try out something new, such as Fedora and maybe switch to Fedora long-term.

I want to buy any computer (specs don’t matter) as long as it can smoothly run Brave Browser (10 to 20 tabs), VS Code, Terminal, Discord all in parallel on Fedora (preferred) or Ubuntu. The only requirement is that it’s cheap, can be refurbished. I have no preference for arm64 or amd64

Budget: 150$.

If this is out of scope, please disregard my request

update: a friend offered me his MacBook for a really good price

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    150$? Like suggested, buy an external drive. If not, buy a used thinkpad install Linux on it, and be happy (at that price, unless you’re rela lucky, it will be an older model and I’m not sure how well Fedora would run on such older hardware though).

    I run Debian an a… Cor2Duo/8g ram Thinkpad for very lightweight tasks (text writing, simple website browsing (no YT and script heavy things like that), local music and video playing (here again, not YT) without issue. Not fast but real usable, with a great keyboard.

  • brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Put Linux on your existing computer and shift some stuff you don’t need as frequently to an external hard drive! You’re not gonna get the experience you want from a $150 computer