I was wondering what to do with the former Windows XP machine I had rescued from the trash and installed Linux Mint on. The machine is so under-powered that I’d been having trouble coming up with ideas of what to do with it. So, I decided I’d try installing Ubuntu.
A friend was throwing away an old Windows XP computer because it was of no use to him any longer. I volunteered to take it off his hands and save it from the trash heap because I wanted to experiment with it.
Using WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) you can have Linux on your Windows 10 machine running almost as if it were an app. It is amazing!
I’ve been reading about how well lightweight distributions of Linux can run on older machines so I thought I’d test this myself.