I’m not very bright so I’m feeling pumped :P grub wouldn’t play nice with dual boot of other distros, realised I couldnt find a text editor to make the DE work, but we got there In the end and it turns out it’s true what they say, you learn a lot.

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    I don’t know what falls into ‘ancient’ dabbling in Linux land has shown me some amazing aging tech that people are fighting on with, for me it’s a new to me Lenovo D30 from I think 2011. Because the macbook air 2016 (the device that got me into Linux in the first place when it stopped being supported) finally died the other day.

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      Those at least started with Windows7 back then. I have a laptop here that still has that “Windows XP ready” sticker. And a PC from -as mentioned- pre-UEFI times with some hybrid system (basically BIOS with 64bit compatibility) that started originally with a classic MBR partitioned disk.

      But hey… that’s still nothing in terms of Linux support. Recent kernels still support (but are soon to drop) 486-architecture.