Frugal Friday

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Welcome back to Frugal Friday!  This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which have changed as we've proceeded. (As things have settled down to a nice steady conversational pace, for example, I've deleted the rules about only one tip per person per week and about limiting the length of comments; I was worried early on about people flooding the forum with too much too fast, but I think we're past that risk.)

Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #3:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

With that said, have at it!

Comments

Re: Ubuntu

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A quick search showed that Intel Core Duo is 64 bits from the blog linked below

"Intel Core 2 is a 64 bit CPU that dates back to 2006.

MX linux would be my first choice although you could try running debian 11."

and some other points regarding it

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/best-debian-linux-version-for-a-core-2-duo-laptop-4175711538/#:~:text=Intel%20Core%202%20is%20a,could%20try%20running%20debian%2011.&text=Probably%20best%20to%20avoid%20Gnome%20or%20KDE%20though.&text=I%20also%20recommend%20Debian%2011.

Given your points on hardware, I think MX Linux might be a better option than Ubuntu as you say. Linux is different than Windows both in UI and in user experience but it is also more intuitive I think. The good thing is that a "live USB", the way Linux is installed these days mostly, allows you to test and look around without installing it and they are not hard to make, it requires a program and downloading the OS.

From Ubuntu's site they recommend balenaEtcher as the program to copy/burn the OS since it supports multiple platforms, and looking at their site they do have a "legacy" version for older hardware. You might provide a better option regarding something to burn an image that runs on Windows 7 though, as their site says they have a version that is compatible but is not clear if the one labeled as "legacy" is the one they are referring to.

If I may, I think you complicated instructions a little bit above.

There are only three steps: 1) Downloading OS image (the name for a file that needs to be burned into a media in order to run) 2) Burning it into the selected media, which has to be at least 2GB, for Ubuntu at least. and 3) Turning off the computer and and booting up again with the media inside or plugged in to the computer. Most modern Linux distros already boot if plugged in, so no need to tell the computer to change it's boot loader.