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Don't through away your old laptop if the hardware is OK! Give it a second chance by install a user friendly GNU/Linux distribution instead!
Why?
- If you mostly intend to write, surf on the web, draw and manipulate pictures, etc, it's pity to through away hardware that actually works.
- Linux generally requires less system resources than Windows.
- Linux, and most software written for Linux, are open source, meaning that the code is public and you are allowed to chance it (if you have knowledge in programming). On the other hand the source code for Windows and MacOS, as well as for software written for those, are secret and you are not allowed to recover it. Thinking about what Snowden has revealed about the mass surveillance by NSA and the back doors NSA has forced Microsoft and Apple to have in their operating systems, so … To run a Linux system on your old computer may be a little bit of the answer towards the growing Big Brother Society, the oligopoly of PC operating system, and also less usage of natural resources.
They are,
Ubuntu since 2011 on an Eee PC starting with version 10.10 that had the desktop environment Gnome 2, and than upgrading to versions 11.04, 11.10, and finally 12.04 LTS (Long Time Support) having support until 2017. From 11.04 Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, shipped Ubuntu with their Unity desktop environment, giving rise to much controversies, among all for using more system resources. However for less powerful machines there are variants of Ubuntu which do not run Unity such as Xubuntu (which run Xfce). No it is reinstalled with with Ubuntu-gnome 16.04.1 having a Gnome 3 desktop instead of Unity
LinuxMint with the Cinnamon desktop environment since about ten month (December 2015) on an old Samsung minilaptop, thinner and less heavy then the Eee PC above. I got it for free because with WIN 7 it was so slow so the owner had no use for it. I run the Cinnamon desktop environment on it.
Fedora with the Gnome 3 desktop environment. But more of that you can read in my previous journal, Testing fedora where you also have links to 4 screen shots from my gallery. However since soon two weeks I have replaced fedora with ..
Korora. also with Gnome 3 desktop environment, on the same big laptop I received for free from a retired lady (who bought a Mac Book) in the middle of the summer. Soon I'm going to install probably LinuxMint on it and give it away to a poor retired man who is dependent of the computer on the local library for access to the Internet. The Korora is an “All inclusive” version of fedora, more software preinstalled, also decoders to the media player, which must be searched for and installed by the user in fedora.
Elementary OS (Update October 2017) with the Pantheon desktop environment on a Lenovo I got in return, since the receiver got a Mac
It had originally Windows 8, and I gave it away with Ubuntu. Now I will keep it as a stationary laptop at home. Pantheon desktop is very awesome, it function rather similar to Gnome 3. Instead of a side panel it has a dock at the bottom of the screen.
The recent month I've discovered one thing, at least true for myself. Instead if thinking “which Linux distribution is best for me and my computer?”, I rather put the question “which user interface, is most cool and handy to work with?”. Those interfaces have the name as Gnome (2 3), KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, etc, and many Linux distributions have many of them
So on my Eee PC I run the old Ubuntu 12.04, having support only one more year, I plan to install the new LTS Ubuntu 16.04, but not the standard Ubuntu with the Unity desktop environment, but Ubuntu Gnome with the Gnome 3 desktop environment. We will see Isn't fantastic that in the world of Linux there are a really friendly competition between distros and desktop environments, everything is public so the different project groups borrow freely from each other 
Sharing is caring 
Or, “Linux is Communism” as Microsoft said for some years ago. However at least in Sweden you can't buy a ready made PC computer without Windows 10 preinstalled (there may be a few exceptions). THAT I would call “Communism”, especially due to all spy devices inherent in Win 10 
I don't take MacOS into account since it is based on a hardware platform of it's own.
So for about two years ago I started a little campaign in the area I live in to beg people to not through away their old laptop cause Win XP or Vista has become slow, but either give them to me, or install Ubuntu (the distro I had experience of at that time) themselves instead. As soon as I had one preinstalled with Ubuntu, I put up signs in the store that I had an old laptop with Ubuntu installed to give away for free. At that way I saved a few laps. Sometimes it was more difficult to find receptors for the laps than taking care of them from the donnors. Most people probably became mere confused. My thought was among all that many families need more than one computer, and thus it's enough to have Windows on one of them. However today I-phones and smart-phones have taken over many tasks from the computers. I've heard many from the young generation saying that “we don't use computers”
Even if an I-phone or smart-phone actually technically is a computer At the end of that period arrived the free update to Win 10 with it's draconian terms of conditions
So it's free for anyone who feels for it to be a Linux activist
Some of the hindrance I came across were,
- Many people do not know the border between hardware and software
- Many people have no clue what an operating system is, or what version of Windows they are actually running
- Some even do not know the border between their computers and Internet
I thought it was a rumor, but, according to what I recently heard in my environment, it seems that it’s not
If you are (were) running Win 7 or Win 8, and have the Windows Update set to automatic (default), even if you said “No thank” to Win 10, the install files not only being downloaded on your computer, but the updating to Win 10 also takes place on a certain point of time. I dunno what your experiences are? Even if Microsoft actually owns your operating system (you paid a license allowing you to run it on your computer), that’s really awful, isn’t it? 
Finally I am NOT an expert on Linux, I’ve just started to learn. Living is learning, isn’t it?
Why?
- If you mostly intend to write, surf on the web, draw and manipulate pictures, etc, it's pity to through away hardware that actually works.
- Linux generally requires less system resources than Windows.
- Linux, and most software written for Linux, are open source, meaning that the code is public and you are allowed to chance it (if you have knowledge in programming). On the other hand the source code for Windows and MacOS, as well as for software written for those, are secret and you are not allowed to recover it. Thinking about what Snowden has revealed about the mass surveillance by NSA and the back doors NSA has forced Microsoft and Apple to have in their operating systems, so … To run a Linux system on your old computer may be a little bit of the answer towards the growing Big Brother Society, the oligopoly of PC operating system, and also less usage of natural resources.
So which Linux distributions do I actually have experiences of?
They are,
Ubuntu since 2011 on an Eee PC starting with version 10.10 that had the desktop environment Gnome 2, and than upgrading to versions 11.04, 11.10, and finally 12.04 LTS (Long Time Support) having support until 2017. From 11.04 Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, shipped Ubuntu with their Unity desktop environment, giving rise to much controversies, among all for using more system resources. However for less powerful machines there are variants of Ubuntu which do not run Unity such as Xubuntu (which run Xfce). No it is reinstalled with with Ubuntu-gnome 16.04.1 having a Gnome 3 desktop instead of Unity
LinuxMint with the Cinnamon desktop environment since about ten month (December 2015) on an old Samsung minilaptop, thinner and less heavy then the Eee PC above. I got it for free because with WIN 7 it was so slow so the owner had no use for it. I run the Cinnamon desktop environment on it.
Fedora with the Gnome 3 desktop environment. But more of that you can read in my previous journal, Testing fedora where you also have links to 4 screen shots from my gallery. However since soon two weeks I have replaced fedora with ..
Korora. also with Gnome 3 desktop environment, on the same big laptop I received for free from a retired lady (who bought a Mac Book) in the middle of the summer. Soon I'm going to install probably LinuxMint on it and give it away to a poor retired man who is dependent of the computer on the local library for access to the Internet. The Korora is an “All inclusive” version of fedora, more software preinstalled, also decoders to the media player, which must be searched for and installed by the user in fedora.
Elementary OS (Update October 2017) with the Pantheon desktop environment on a Lenovo I got in return, since the receiver got a Mac
It had originally Windows 8, and I gave it away with Ubuntu. Now I will keep it as a stationary laptop at home. Pantheon desktop is very awesome, it function rather similar to Gnome 3. Instead of a side panel it has a dock at the bottom of the screen.The recent month I've discovered one thing, at least true for myself. Instead if thinking “which Linux distribution is best for me and my computer?”, I rather put the question “which user interface, is most cool and handy to work with?”. Those interfaces have the name as Gnome (2 3), KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, etc, and many Linux distributions have many of them
So on my Eee PC I run the old Ubuntu 12.04, having support only one more year, I plan to install the new LTS Ubuntu 16.04, but not the standard Ubuntu with the Unity desktop environment, but Ubuntu Gnome with the Gnome 3 desktop environment. We will see Isn't fantastic that in the world of Linux there are a really friendly competition between distros and desktop environments, everything is public so the different project groups borrow freely from each other Sharing is caring Or, “Linux is Communism” as Microsoft said for some years ago. However at least in Sweden you can't buy a ready made PC computer without Windows 10 preinstalled (there may be a few exceptions). THAT I would call “Communism”, especially due to all spy devices inherent in Win 10 I don't take MacOS into account since it is based on a hardware platform of it's own. So for about two years ago I started a little campaign in the area I live in to beg people to not through away their old laptop cause Win XP or Vista has become slow, but either give them to me, or install Ubuntu (the distro I had experience of at that time) themselves instead. As soon as I had one preinstalled with Ubuntu, I put up signs in the store that I had an old laptop with Ubuntu installed to give away for free. At that way I saved a few laps. Sometimes it was more difficult to find receptors for the laps than taking care of them from the donnors. Most people probably became mere confused. My thought was among all that many families need more than one computer, and thus it's enough to have Windows on one of them. However today I-phones and smart-phones have taken over many tasks from the computers. I've heard many from the young generation saying that “we don't use computers”
Even if an I-phone or smart-phone actually technically is a computer At the end of that period arrived the free update to Win 10 with it's draconian terms of conditions So it's free for anyone who feels for it to be a Linux activist
Some of the hindrance I came across were,
- Many people do not know the border between hardware and software
- Many people have no clue what an operating system is, or what version of Windows they are actually running
- Some even do not know the border between their computers and Internet
I thought it was a rumor, but, according to what I recently heard in my environment, it seems that it’s not
If you are (were) running Win 7 or Win 8, and have the Windows Update set to automatic (default), even if you said “No thank” to Win 10, the install files not only being downloaded on your computer, but the updating to Win 10 also takes place on a certain point of time. I dunno what your experiences are? Even if Microsoft actually owns your operating system (you paid a license allowing you to run it on your computer), that’s really awful, isn’t it? Finally I am NOT an expert on Linux, I’ve just started to learn. Living is learning, isn’t it?
A Christmas Greeting from Sweden
As a Christmas greeting from Sweden I will promote a YouTube channel by the nature filmer and photographer, Jonna Jinton. The link goes to her channel. Go and see the 15 minutes introduction video in full screen, the image below from the beginning of the video, The scenarios are a mix from both midwinter, midsummer, and other seasons. The soundtrack is as beautiful as the scenarios, and Jonna speaks in English with a relaxing voice. I myself live in the very south of Sweden about more than thousand kilometers south from the area where Jonna and her man and dog lives, the conditions of life being quite different. Here the sun shines for about 7 hours at midwinter. Just click the introduction video, put it in full view and enjoy :snowflake: :santa: :snowflake:
How I Became Interested in Fractals
This journal ought to have been written and published for at least a decade ago The year 1987 it was an India festival in Sweden. At that time, besides my work (I was a shift worker), I was studying Sanskrit at the university of Gothenburg. My special interest was the way they wrote grammar in ancient India about 500 BC. An evening at the late autumn I was sitting with some friends in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and watched a TV program about Indian dance. At the end of the program, the speaker talked a little of the theory behind the dance. I don't remember what he said in details, but it was something about how the god of dance, Shiva, transformed order into chaos and chaos into order. Then a map was shown of the coast line of Great Britain and the speaker quite naturally went into that "today the mathematicians has found that there is an order behind the irregular". The subject was the new science about chaos and complexity. Both Mandelbrot and
A special flashmob
This is journal I ought to have written and published for at least one year ago. But as we say in Sweden, ”better late then never”. So first, what is a flashmob? ”A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression. Flash mobs may be organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.” Quotation from Wikipedia. Back to August, 2021, when there still was some Covid restrictions in Sweden, a group around the Swedish musician and producer Christoffer Lundquist started to perform some flashmobs at some squares in Malmo (the third biggest city in Sweden) and Lund (Sweden's Oxford) at the very south of Sweden. He had just produced a new song that was a protest against the Covid restrictions we had at that time. Now remember that those restrictions were the most liberal in the western world. Yet we were less affected by
The Dreams of World Economic Forum
Hi everyone, Yuval Noah Harari is the one of the advisors to the founder and chair man of World Economic Forumm (WEF) Klaus Schwab.You can read about him (Harari) at Wikipedia.There is an interesting channel at BITCHUTE, HighImpactFlixwho has uploaded 2 videos, 9 minutes and 14 minutes where Harari dreams trans humanistic dreams, Something REALLY BAD is About to Fundamentally Change Humanity - (Pt 1) Some quotes from the video: "What should we do with all these useless people" (Already discussed, due to the fact that about 90 percent of the today's employments will disappear as a consequence of the fourth industrial revolution.) "People could look back in a hundred years and identify the corona epidemic as a moment when a new regime of surveillance took over, especially surveillance under the skin". (You probably know that you may have the vaccine passport as a chip under your skin. The proposals of vaccine passorts where already there in EU as a ”health passport”. Social
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Thank you for all the useful advice! Since I am a soon-to-be engineer I should be especially aware of such things. I am not a fan of throwing old devices either and I am not very excited about having new ones, actually. I have a feeling that all those so-called updates are not for us, but for the people who created them... we've had a PC with Windows XP for a long time and after some adjustments it works really nice. I use it to print stuff, create simple text files. Maybe it's not great, but who knows when it will be useful? It's still a good backup option when my new laptop dies.