Okay so I found this old MacBook (I mean OLD, it even has a hot-swappable battery and an optical drive) and I have no idea if it’s even worth the effort of installing anything on it. What do you guys think I could do with it?

Edit: note that this is just from a live usb, it has 120GB storage

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Should be ok to remote into a more powerful machine. That’s what I do with my oldies. That way the heavy lifting is handled elsewhere.

    • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      That is quite a rare type of usage. Those who need “thin client”, already have one (modern and actually thin), those who don’t – don’t have and don’t need, let alone some old Mac.

      • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Nothing fancy at my end. Just Rustdesk to my i7 laptop from other rooms in the house using Debian as the client. Works pretty well even from away, so I only have to maintain one ‘good’ computer.

          • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            9 hours ago

            Well it saves the hassle of having to unplug the monitors, speakers etc, and it’s accessible from anywhere I go. The i7 laptop is used more as a desktop.

            I’m not saying others should - the point was that using a crappy computer is practical if it’s not having to do the heavy lifting.