Computer juggling
Oct. 3rd, 2024 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyIt's time for computer musical chairs again. My brother's laptop finally died - it's like 13 years old and is physically wrecked and super slow anyway. I gave him the Inspiron that I had been using as a travel laptop - which gets used maybe 2 hours a year. And I found the newer version of that which is new enough to run Win11, with USB C and m.2 slots, for about $200 refurbed with a year warranty on eBay. So that's showing up today.
But I still have a few things I need Windows on my main desktop for, and I have an old laptop running Win10 for the security cameras, so I decided to combine the two. Jenn's old desktop is sitting unused, so why not that. While grabbing it, I realized that my day-to-day usage is much less intensive than running the security cams, and running Insta360. And also if I'm shuffling things anyway the machine that runs Windows should be Win11 capable, to keep getting updates.
So Jenn's 10 year old desktop is now running Linux Mint and is my primary desktop that I'm typing on now. The newish Dell that I've been running will be running Windows 11 with security cams plus the scanner, printer, and Insta360.
I had to do some creative stuff to get the monitors working with the old machine, starting with griping that I'd JUST thrown away my last VGA cable, and now I could use it. But I did find a combo of cables that got both monitors working.
But I still have a few things I need Windows on my main desktop for, and I have an old laptop running Win10 for the security cameras, so I decided to combine the two. Jenn's old desktop is sitting unused, so why not that. While grabbing it, I realized that my day-to-day usage is much less intensive than running the security cams, and running Insta360. And also if I'm shuffling things anyway the machine that runs Windows should be Win11 capable, to keep getting updates.
So Jenn's 10 year old desktop is now running Linux Mint and is my primary desktop that I'm typing on now. The newish Dell that I've been running will be running Windows 11 with security cams plus the scanner, printer, and Insta360.
I had to do some creative stuff to get the monitors working with the old machine, starting with griping that I'd JUST thrown away my last VGA cable, and now I could use it. But I did find a combo of cables that got both monitors working.
