Do the power equation before you get your old PC out and include kWh for your future TCO.
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Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
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Re: Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
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What happens next? I've given Ubuntu laptops (2010 laptops) to my dad, mom, girlfriend and sister, and they're liking it a lot, especially the fact that they don't have to worry about malware. They're fine with it, it's not like people are born with an innate understanding of the Windows UI and are incapable of learning anything else.
Curious, for the "Ubuntu for Grandma" box, do you use the default partition plan? Because I find that stock Ubuntu has the infuriating habit of filling the boot partition with linux kernels and then freaking out unhelpfully during later updates about the lack of space.
For my mom, I think I set one partition for everything. I doubt an email, web, and solitare machine is going to eat a 256GB SSD over a year or so.
Re: Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
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Yeah, it'd be cool if they also taught Linux fundamentals, the way the internet works, networking in general, etc.
I think that may be looking at it in a different way that doesn't necessarily reflect the impact of all this, in the UK at least. The way many of my generation was taught IT was Office (with maybe some Macros), a largely useless high-level overview of networking, an out-of-date comparison of "client-server", "mainframe" and "peer-to-peer" computing etc. It was dry. Unless you already had an interest in the field, it…
Good point. Anything is better than the office driven computer classes. The PI does indeed provide strong educational benefits to improve insights at the electronic level.
My only complaint, and weighted by the fact that the rpi team did deliver on most feature, quality and cost while so many ventures failed to even finish prototypes, is that the SoC is a monster. So no kid will ever use it to go further than python and gpio. A stupid forth CPU would be as good for electronics, but also teach some mathematical programming ideas (recursion, trees), basically the whole computing fundamentals.
Maybe my idea would have failed.