- I updated a 15-year-old* laptop
- from an eight-year-old* operating system
Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Nice! Which OS?
Ubuntu, went all the steps from LTS 16 to LTS 24. I didn't bring up Linux in my post because there's this dumb os bashing all around. I don't care for that, this os works fine, that's all I need.
It's not like Windows would be able to run.
Any GNU/Linux distro is good
I actually just gave up on trying to put W11 LTS directly on a 17 year old PC. It booted to the USB, but it wouldn't recognize the w8 storage driver.
I would rather put Linux on it, but I'm trying to sell it to make room for more hardware.
So far I bought 5 computers and resold all them plus a few I had in my basement.
running almost any flavor of gnu/linux is good soup given the alternative. enjoy!
To be fair bringing up Linux is only dull for the wives. :). OpenSUSE here, not as dull as Debian, but not Arch either.
My wife is on NixOS, because she 100% does not care about an OS, only that it works identically every time even if drive died; so I have her config stored elsewhere in case a new build is ever needed. Turned a 2010 sloooow windows laptop into a peppy zoom call, web, email machine.
Hey! You down there! Can you hear us? We're over here, up in the 21st Century! Come join us!
Stereotyping people's interests by their gender stopped being funny in the 50s.
Ah right we should inform comedians, since everyone is so offended by harmless joking in 2025. Dude, it is(was) Dull Men's Club...assumption being it is men here, that are dull, and are boring their wives talking about Linux. (I understand that some men may have husbands, and many women contribute to Linux use and FOSS maintenance, and Maybe your wife or husband likes talking about Copy on Write Filesystem OS choices, but stats say many people do not want to hear about OS choices, and stats say in a "men's" group the majority would have a wife that falls into that Venn diagram--as opposed to a husband.
Ubuntu is dull, perfect for this community.
Debian is duller
Accurate statement.
If it's not Linux, they're banned
Well done sir! Reducing E-waste one piece at a time.