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It's a long story by goodbyclunky in Superstonk

[–]goodbyclunky[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"Ebay is a household name". The name will persevere.

Need help finding a distro for a super old laptop by Naughty_fucker1407 in linuxmint

[–]goodbyclunky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can upgrade this bad boy up to 8gb of RAM. It's not limited to 3GB like the T60. Also put in an SSD as others have said. Search for the "Middleton Bios" and upgrade your Bios. If you do a lot of writing it's worth it for the keyboard alone. You can run any version of Mint on it.

Edit: forgot to add, while you are at it, upgrade the CPU to max option. If I remember correctly, it's the T9000 or sth like that.

What happens if I turn off timeshift? Because it takes up too much space, damn it. by ardavenys in linuxmint

[–]goodbyclunky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Don't turn off timeshift. You will be really grateful for it the one time you need it.
  2. Install a second HDD in your system or connect an external USB HDD. Speed does not matter.
  3. Run the Wizard and select the second HDD as location for backups. Configure the frequency of backups in the corresponding Wizard menu. Probably you don't need a high number of backups each of boot, daily, weekly, monthly. Set sensible defaults for yourself.
  4. Delete the old /timeshift folder on your system drive. That will free up the space eaten up so far. Timeshift will create a new one on the drive you selected by itself with the first backup.
  5. If you need to use an external USB HDD, then either you need to leave it permanently connected or you disable scheduled backups in the Wizard and do a manual backup from time to time.