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  • spirinolas@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 year ago

    I do tech support in a school that still has Windows 7 on all PC’s. These are old relics from 2008 and just this week I was informed we’ll have to manage with them for a few more years. There’s no way I can upgrade those things to Windows 10 not to mention we don’t have the licenses. They can barely run 7. I’m thinking of throwing a user friendly Linux distro in those things. The principal liked the idea but I’m not sure the users will like it. But Windows 7 is becoming a liability.

    • testeronious@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know much about linux, but maybe try those debian stable distros (mint, ubuntu, or debian itself).

      When we use linux for basic things like browsing the web, opening pdf files, editting a picture (on gimp) and so on, I don’t see much of a difference on the experience.

      By the way, I once installed linux on a old laptop with 2GB ram, the performance got so much better, I was even able to play simple 2D games (kingdom rush) at 60 fps, this wasn’t possible on the old windows 7 it had installed.

    • BlanK0@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just put linux mint and its basically the same experiente imo. Also much safer, since now to download stuff they are going to have to rely on the graphic app store application which is much safer then downloading on the internet.