matthew - retroedge.tech on Nostr: This is a customer's computer. He's been quite happy with a refurbished Dell Vostro ...
This is a customer's computer. He's been quite happy with a refurbished Dell Vostro 230 desktop for years with Ubuntu Mate.
He only got it to me because there was a power outage while he was applying updates and he wasn't sure how to fix the broken package state.
I fixed that, then upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, as the Firefox snap was broken. The upgrade to 24.04 fixed that. Works fine now.
Intel Core 2 Duo still kicking and in active use.
#Linux #Ubuntu #MATE
Published at
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