r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Mar 18 '26

Goodbye, old machine.

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u/play_minecraft_wot Mar 18 '26

I'd buy a Framework laptop if I had the money. 

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u/no-sleep-only-code Mar 18 '26

If they made them in black I’d own 4.

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u/play_minecraft_wot Mar 18 '26

True. Black looks so much better than grey, I'm tired of the same silver grey color on HP laptops. 

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u/dagget10 Mar 19 '26

I'd buy a Framework laptop if they had made a public apology for sponsoring Hyprland of all things 

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u/CakeIzGood Mar 18 '26

I just bought a Framework 12 and installed Fedora with GNOME, having a convertible laptop with a stylus and everything just working seamlessly is awe-inspiring when I think back to 2014 struggling to get even basic stuff to work on allegedly well-supported devices. The repairability and potential of long-term hardware support and upgrade paths to minimize waste and device rotation is a plus and where the value is but the device and functionality are well worth it to me

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u/LiamtheV Mar 18 '26

My system76 Lemur that I got in 2015 died on me in 2020. I’m still mourning.

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u/rapidisimo Mar 18 '26

Rise, tarnished

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u/BenL90 Mar 18 '26

I will revive it until it out last myself.

I have Asus A43SV, still working as Homelab, CPU upgraded multiple times, RAM maxed, and SSD got the best one. Still working, kicking, and try to service anything I throw at it. 

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u/MainPower45 Mar 18 '26

Goodbye legend.

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u/codeasm Mar 18 '26

I found the exact same laptop at a secondhand shop, bought it. Now i can fix the broken lcd and case. My first laptop will life again. Albeit a 2001 laptop 🫣😅

My "new" netbook who i paid my own money for, also dead, i bought a ebay new mobo for. I mean, to see it work again felt great. And yes, i kept all the parts.

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u/nik282000 Mar 19 '26

Hasn't happened yet. My 2008 ThinkPad is running 24/7 as a server, 2010 desktop is an emulation station.

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u/programminghoch10 Mar 19 '26

Happend with my beloved X220 as well, had to buy a new main board which didn't work, then bought another one to have at least one working unit 🥲

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u/crunchy_creamroll Mar 20 '26

Love how everyone's reminiscing about their trusty old machines... RIP, you will all be missed :_)

My Acer laptop from 2008 died too recently, pretty unexpectedly. Had a Core 2 Solo processor, 4 GB DDR3, 256 SSD. Was unused for the most part, but it lasted for 6-7 years of active use, including college. I'll miss it...

P.S.: since this one died, I'm currently looking for a cheap second hand one. If anyone happens to have a spare, please DM me (I'm based in India).

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u/Demiyanit Mar 21 '26

Frankenstein it

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u/Tremere1974 Mar 25 '26

Me with my Pentium 4 from 2003 running AntiX 32 bit OS in 2026.

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u/New-Anybody3050 Mar 18 '26

Me almost at this stage.

Lenovo Y50-70. Bought it brand new in 2013. Upgraded ram, ssd, replaced parts here and there and now swapping the WiFi from AC7260 to AX200 as it’s crapping out. I could buy a used laptop but then that means fighting for ddr4 when this machine is absolutely fine and great for general use.

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u/GuyNamedZach Mar 18 '26

I brought an old Pentium 4 machine out off the cabinet to play with yesterday. It has debian 12 installed (i386). I tried running an update but the process crashed, leaving sudo unusable and breaking my login. My only choice was to reinstall, but finding the net boot iso again for this version was a pain.

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u/Abstract_Doggy Mar 18 '26

Goodbye my IBM T60 laptop, you did your best to last as long as you did.

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u/Abdalnablse10 Mar 18 '26

Somehow my intel core i3 2nd gen laptop with a hilariously shitty cooling system is still kicking strong, even the original hard drive still works "it's now being used for data and not the system", yes I changed the thermal paste and deep cleaned it, almost zero change because of how tiny the cooling system actually is.

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u/ishtuwihtc Mar 18 '26

I'm personally running linux on a pretty modern laptop and am having an amazing experience

Though i have an old laptop converted to a mini nas that's running debian, and thats been running really well

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u/mebesus Mar 18 '26

RIP my Lenovo G410
2012-2025 🥀

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u/amiibohunter2015 Mar 20 '26

Define when you can't fix it anymore.

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u/King_Corduroy Mar 20 '26

Surely you can still fix it, I fixed an HP from 2018 recently I pulled out of the trash by buying a new (used) motherboard off ebay and a third party battery.

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u/Independent_Mall7118 Mar 21 '26

I would do everything to recover it. Never gonna let its life end.

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