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

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    150$? Like suggested, buy an external drive. If not, buy a used thinkpad install Linux on it, and be happy (at that price, unless you’re rela lucky, it will be an older model and I’m not sure how well Fedora would run on such older hardware though).

    I run Debian an a… Cor2Duo/8g ram Thinkpad for very lightweight tasks (text writing, simple website browsing (no YT and script heavy things like that), local music and video playing (here again, not YT) without issue. Not fast but real usable, with a great keyboard.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      I have a MacBook of about the same age (2009) that I upped to 8 GB RAM and run Mint with Cinnamon. As long as I don’t push it too hard it’s fine. Youtube is a real killer, although I can usually power through it by restarting Cinnamon (I don’t think that’s the issue, but it works). The only reason I changed it over was because Apple had long ago given up on the OS it had. I was really surprised how easy Mint went on, everything worked the first bootup.

      • Libb@piefed.socialFrançais
        1·
        2 days ago

        I was really surprised how easy Mint went on, everything worked the first bootup.

        Yes, Mint is my other system (on my main machine) and it runs buttery smooth. It was running ok on the C2D but not as smooth as Debian… but what OS could run as smooth? ;)