Rescued old net book with Linux Mint

[ed]

Six years ago my organization relaxed the remote access rules to your desktop, so I went to Best Buy and bought the cheapest net book I could find to be a dedicated device to login and access my desktop - an HP Stream 11 with a whopping 11.6 inch screen, 2 GB ram, 32 GB SSD drive and one terabyte of cloud storage. I added a 64 GB SD card for additional storage. Within a year of getting it HP discontinued their cloud service and the one terabyte storage I was given. Then, Microsoft had a major update to Windows 10 for a security fix, and I did not have enough space to do the update, and could not use it for accessing the office

It's been sitting in a desk drawer since then. Yesterday I pulled it out and wiped Windows and installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop. It is now a useable device again I've never used Ubuntu before, but I am really impressed, it's a pretty peppy OS. It has a very small footprint, a little over 7 GB, and includes everything you really need as far as software and admin tools. I really like the admin tools interface. This version kind of has a Windows 97 look. I installed Chrome, Microsoft Teams, and Gimp on it.

Anyway, I thought someone with an old crappy laptop may be interested in making it useful again. I can understand now why so many folks outside of the US use Ubuntu.

[TreeTopsRanch]

Good story Ed. I have a Android tablet. Wonder if I can load Linux mint on it?

[ed]

I doubt it treetops. There is a Ubuntu build called touch that is supposed to do that, but I have no experience with it. If you go to their website you can see if your device is compatible.

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io