I’m sitting here in 2026 runnin Fedora 43 on a laptop from 2016, and honestly? It’s smoother than it has any right to be. My entire workflow lives in Brave and Obsidian, and this “old” i5 handles it like a champ. There is something deeply satisfying about taking a “boring” enterprise machine, slapping GNOME on it, and watching it run circles around modern hardware,It’s actually fuckin depressing that a 10-year-old laptop has better utility than 99% of the “pro” hardware being sold today.have a native Ethernet port and a full SD slot. Imagine that shit No $60 Amazon adapters dangling off the side like life support just to get a stable connection 🙄that’s what I call good hardware built to last.#r/Linuxmasterrace
To compare…
We’re running brand new Dell laptops with Windows 11 and most are failing.
Some are hardware issues (laptop won’t charge!) Some are software (BSOD, random issues, etc)
So, TBH, I’d like to buy back all our old laptops, replace Windows with Linux and do away with all the corp. spyware and I bet my team’s productivity doubles.