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		Jolter 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) The idea of the article is to not run the newer, more demanding software which drives the replacement cycle. Instead install a lightweight Linux or similar and don’t use all those extra CPU cycles.

bluGill 7 months ago [–]

But even then wht if you ran the lite linux on the newest. Would the increased efficiency pay for it?

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