Complete noob with obsessive tendencies

[Sherri is a Cat]

In no time you'll say...why didn't I switch sooner...enjoy.

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Every day I'm at work (working with Winblows PC's) I THANK GOD ALMIGHTY IN HEAVEN THAT I SWITCHED!

 

[Smilax]

I have Mint Xfce installed a very inexpensive laptop with 64GB of storage, and 4 GB of RAM. Runs very well

I've got it running on an HP Stream. It was given to me from an estate and I never ran it with the stock OS. It has 4GB ram, an Atom processor and the primary storage is a soldered in 32GB SD card. Everything I've read indicates they kinda sucked, I can only imagine.

But mine is purple (!) with stark white keys with large black letters, no backlighting needed. Oh, and a pretty good track pad and an SD expansion slot. And it runs Mint Xfce 22.3 just fine with absurdly good battery life. I do have to pay attention to keep the system drive groomed, like keeping only one previous kernel, etc. If it has a fan I can't hear it and it doesn't get hot on my lap in the rocker. Great for watching...movies. Or, visiting here!
(derp)
Point is this machine would long ago have been tossed, as I suspect most were after reading the reviews. That's too bad because it's a cool, lightweight little machine and I'm happy to have it.