Hi, I’m currently on a MacBook Air M2 8/256 and I’m running out of disk space. System is too large. I love macOS but I’d love to try out something new, such as Fedora and maybe switch to Fedora long-term.

I want to buy any computer (specs don’t matter) as long as it can smoothly run Brave Browser (10 to 20 tabs), VS Code, Terminal, Discord all in parallel on Fedora (preferred) or Ubuntu. The only requirement is that it’s cheap, can be refurbished. I have no preference for arm64 or amd64

Budget: 150$.

If this is out of scope, please disregard my request

  • binaryqueen@programming.devOP
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    2 days ago

    I’d like to experiment with the device first and if everything is running smoothly stay on the device or upgrade to a slightly more expensive device if it’s not smooth. I’m a Mac user ever since and I have absolutely no experience with other computers (hardware).

    ** If I upgrade later on, I can still use the bought hardware as a home server, so I didn’t waste money here

    • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I have been a Apple user since de early 80s (yep, I’m that old) and switched to Linux somewhere 7 or 8 years ago. It all depends what you want to do and what are your expectations (how willing you’re to change your habits and the way you do things: Linux is not a free version of macOS, it will demand learning new ways and changing habits) but I’ve had zero regrets. No, that would be a lie as I have one tiny regret: I should have switched to GNU/Linux a few years earlier.