• Landless2029@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m between living locations and can’t carry my desktop around.

    So I grabbed an old laptop and put Linux mint on it. It’s been near perfect. Extremely smooth experience.

    It detected my printer and auto installed. I installed steam and played Terraria without issue. Small performance problem but I don’t have a GPU. Even works good with my docking station.

    My only complaint is the audio device doesn’t switch automatically when I dock/undock.

    I’d recommend making a USB and boot into it for a test drive.

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      1 day ago

      Awesome, thanks for the insight. I was actually looking at Linux Mint myself. I need around 4Gb on a USB to boot it, correct?

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        That might do it. I don’t own anything smaller than 16 GB sticks. I used Rufus on windows to make my stick.