| Metamorphosis | I wonder if I can get a better laptop with $200 compared to my current one: Lenovo G5070, Intel Core i5-4210U (170 GHz 1600MHz, 3MB), 6 GB DDR3L RAM, AMD Radeon R5 M230 2GB, 1 TB 5400rpm HDD, 15.6" HD (1366 x 768) display, Windows 10 Home. I'm looking at Lenovo as they used to be cheap. | 11:40 |
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| lotuspsychje | Metamorphosis: there are so cheap HP models around too | 11:41 |
| lotuspsychje | Metamorphosis: but i5 for 200$ thats gonna be hard to beat | 11:44 |
| Metamorphosis | lotuspsychje 2014's i5 isn't much better than 2023's celeron. | 11:44 |
| lotuspsychje | Metamorphosis: whats your endgoal exactly, find the cheapest laptop ubuntu can run? | 11:45 |
| Metamorphosis | lotuspsychje I use Kubuntu as my main OS. But I consider it to be Ubuntu just with a different theme lol | 11:46 |
| Metamorphosis | I also need to have Windows for certain software, but I barely even log in to Windows. | 11:46 |
| lotuspsychje | Metamorphosis: there are some cheap 14" asus and acer netbooks around too | 11:47 |
| lotuspsychje | maybe if you grab one second hand | 11:47 |
| lotuspsychje | asus vivobook and acer swift | 11:48 |
| Metamorphosis | lotuspsuchje Cool. I never had an ASUS or Acer, most of my computing life has either been Lenovo or Dell. | 11:48 |
| Metamorphosis | Lenovo was actually unheard of when i was younger, Until they suddenly destroyed the competition everywhere. | 11:49 |
| lotuspsychje | i still got an old acer aspire one netbook here running lubuntu working great | 11:50 |
| JanC | my Asus EEE 900 from ~2008 broke down a couple months ago :-( | 13:20 |
| leftyfb | I've still got a couple Dell mini 9's I'm trying to get rid of | 13:20 |
| JanC | (might be a power supply issue, I haven't tried to replace that yet) | 13:20 |
| leftyfb | I had one of the eee's as well | 13:20 |
| leftyfb | I soldered a usb hub, bluetooth and a flash drive to the unused pci bus | 13:21 |
| lotuspsychje | cool leftyfb | 13:21 |
| lotuspsychje | i had great luck with lubuntu 20.04 on ancient machines | 13:21 |
| lotuspsychje | they still work leftyfb ? | 13:24 |
| JanC | the battery of that EEE PC900 was no longer really usable, but I used it as a terminal to access other computers in house sometimes :) | 13:25 |
| leftyfb | the mini 9's do, yeah. But they're 32bit and don't really run distro's very well. I've got cloudready on it and it's still slow | 13:25 |
| JanC | the EEE PC900 was 32-bit too, had an old no longer supported distro version on it... | 13:26 |
| JanC | couldn't upgrade it at some point because it didn't have enough disk space... | 13:27 |
| JanC | (even when 32-bit was still available) | 13:27 |
| JanC | / was 4 GiB... | 13:28 |
| lotuspsychje | 18.04 cant be made pro ? | 13:29 |
| JanC | lotuspsychje: I couldn't upgrade it long before that, and too lazy to do a new install (and it wasn't used to go on the internet really) | 13:30 |
| lotuspsychje | kk | 13:30 |
| lotuspsychje | sorry to hear asus broke | 13:30 |
| JanC | I think it was still 12.x or 13.x :) | 13:30 |
| lotuspsychje | JanC leftyfb i saved this handy link for some lighty other distro's, https://itsubuntu.com/22-best-lightweight-linux-operating-systems-in-2020/ | 13:31 |
| leftyfb | yeah, I don't need to use it anymore for anything | 13:32 |
| JanC | it wasn't used much anyway, and old distros work well enough to SSH into some other computer a couple times a year :) | 13:32 |
| leftyfb | I just want to get rid of them but to someone who will actually use them | 13:33 |
| leftyfb | I have actual servers and raspberry pi's I can anything else with if I want to | 13:33 |
| leftyfb | it's crazy how much more powerful a $10 pi zero is than the Dell mini 9 | 13:33 |
| leftyfb | though that's not a terrible idea | 13:36 |
| leftyfb | gut the mini 9 and shove a pi in it | 13:36 |
| leftyfb | It would need to connect to the LCD, keyboard and trackpad | 13:36 |
| lotuspsychje | :p | 13:36 |
| lotuspsychje | there are few barebone laptops specialy made for pi's but they are so expensive | 13:37 |
| lotuspsychje | you can buy laptops for that price | 13:37 |
| leftyfb | I never liked the mini laptop keyboards though | 13:37 |
| leftyfb | you had to jump through hoops just to type a | | 13:37 |
| lotuspsychje | hehe | 13:38 |
| hamidlotfi | hi there, | 13:45 |
| lotuspsychje | welcome hamidlotfi | 13:47 |
| hamidlotfi | I config the netplan with an interface and ovs-bridge and set the mac address manually on the bridge but after applying the netplan, the other mac was randomly assigned by OS to this. | 13:47 |
| leftyfb | !support | hamidlotfi | 13:48 |
| ubottu | hamidlotfi: #ubuntu is the Ubuntu support channel, for all Ubuntu-related support questions. Please use #ubuntu-offtopic for other topics (though our !guidelines apply there too). Thanks! | 13:48 |
| hamidlotfi | ok, thank you. | 13:48 |
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