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[–] Dwalin@lemm.ee 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

True, I've been using NobaraOS and have no problems at all, I moved my mom from windows to ZorinOS and she only noticed because her laptop no longer "freezes up" randomly, and I'm talking about a surface book that runs better on Linux than on Windows. Gotta love the irony

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Hah, same here. Nobara for me and Zorin for mum, works like a charm. If only mainstream OEMs pre-installed Linux and promoted it more... But I guess this is fine too. One day, when I have enough capital, I'll launch my own Linux Desktop company and be the change I want to see.

[–] MetricIsRight@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! Co-worker had 2 old laptops, threw a SSD into one of them and put Zorin OS on it for his daughter to do schoolwork on. Not one complaint or question about how to do anything, and it's been a year. The other one was very very underpowered so I threw CasaOS onto it and got him setup with Home Assistant and Adguardhome.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The other one was very very underpowered so I threw CasaOS onto it

How did you get past the website? It's bloody awful :o

Joking aside though, I hadn't heard of CasaOS, so I just did a quick search. That website is awful on mobile. I swiped up, assuming that there was more than just the live demo link, but nothing happened for a while. Then, loads of content popped up at once and scrolled past >.<

I've sent it to myself to check out on the computer. Hopefully, if it does what it claims, it could resurrect an old laptop :)

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I once installed Zorin for my gf's ancient laptop, it was so much faster and she loved the color schemes for xfce