On 3/21/25 21:09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The biggest problem with old laptops is the batteries - I have seen many
laptops over the years end up scrapped because the batteries wore out and
replacements were more expensive then the value of the laptop. Many times
people who just keep running the laptop with the dead battery off a power
adapter, end up destroying the dead battery worse until it shorts out and then
prevents the laptop from booting - or fries it.
My experience with the PLUG Clinic wasn't primarily about installing
linux on old laptops. The people who came were mostly people who already
knew and liked linux, but who had encountered some problem they didn't
know how to get out of and needed some help. Clinic volunteers would
then work through the problems with them and hopefully send them home
with a working machine. The standard announcement was:
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
useful
direction.
I was only an infrequent participant in the last few years of the
clinic, though. From what I could tell from the mailing list traffic,
the last one might have been January 2020.
--
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
[email protected]
