T20\T420 I have thought of LibreBoot and I may someday ...time permitting. I still have 10 to 15 xboxs sitting in storage that all showed up at a thrift store a year or two ago, four bucks a pop, I instantly saw GNU\LinuxBoxs cha-ching (like to try both hard and soft mods!)(Work or never breaking down at home I understand but still) the year 2000 called it wants their stationary computers back!

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Laptop, but I usually work on it connected to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse so it's more like a desktop.

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I have the same kind of setup. It’s kind of the best of both worlds.

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Guess I'm conflicted about a sea of batteries... tho a laptop does not need one, plugged to solar and wind?

Hi all,perhaps you can be patient as i am a newbie and unsure where to start, i am using a refurbished E-machine E4040 desktop P.C. also 75 yrs old with failing faculties but live in hope.
Many thanks TVTED

Hello TVTED.

Linux gives new life to perfectly good old machines.

I am only 70 yrs old and I have a computer in every room. began to build them in my early 60s after shame got to me. I couldnt even turn one on. But, I also have been using linux Mint Mate for the most part, and brought back one old computer from my spare parts out of a first build. all AMD pieces and worked as fast as it did when brand new, which is only 10yrs ago and i had high end parts . they are just as fast as my one windows 10machine desktop, mid tower size. I love linux and it keeps me thinking because it offers places to experience new things, learning new tricks for an old dog in a way. I can type just well enough to make using the computer pretty easy but nowhere near well enough to code things myself. I would love to have the dexterity to preform the functions that arent just copy/paste or an hot key to do those things.
I voted in the poll but didnt write anything because no window popped up along with it
I do use desktops as my primary for everything, own one laptop and rarely use it. no smart phones in my house.either. maybe some day,not soon

Desktop is my goto for anything serious. I use a tablet for reading news and the like. I use a laptop when traveling, and sync it to the Desktop when I return; both are Slackware 14.2.

Cheers,
-- William

Which model is your laptop? Also, what do you use for syncing files between your laptop and desktop? Dropbox? OwnCloud?

I am currently using an expensive AMD driven Lenovo 110 laptop. I sync with the Desktop either of 2 ways (1.) using rsync to sync to harddrives on and offsite which rsync to the Desktop, or (2.) using Resilio Sync directly which can be done remotely. I only use Dropbox and Box when work requires collaboration with other parties, and I do not use commercial cloud for backup.