Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)

    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      And a reverse image search shows the picture of at least as old as 2017

      Edit: still not enough ram. 4gb, maybe, at a minimum, for this type of thing. Even Linux has it’s limits if you’re trying to get anything done in reasonable time on the modern web

      • 5redie8@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Not sure how 2016 era gnome handled low ram, but I can assure you I was browsing the web just fine on an Ubuntu based lxqt machine around that time