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<p><font face="monospace">(Would love to make the meeting Thursday
since bash shell quoting is something I deal with constantly,
but live a thousand miles or so away from c-town these days.)<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">I have a few old Macbooks (oldest is 2010
or 2011?) that I want to give away to families that could use
them. The hardware is fine. One needed a new battery, but that
was easy. They're too old for any modern version of macOS, but
perfectly capable of running a reasonable Linux desktop - web
browsing, email, word processing, etc. I've already played a bit
with Mint and it seems to run well. Mint also has a way to
deliver a system as "OEM" - meaning that while the OS is already
installed and ready, the first thing it does is ask you to set
up a new user. (This as opposed to only giving you the new user
prompt during install time.)<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">If I wanted a distro that was
user-friendly and more or less non-technical, and runs decent on
old hardware is Mint a recommended option? Are there others that
might be better? It is very likely that they'll end up passing
through a charity of some kind and I won't even know where these
laptops end up, so won't be available to do technical support.<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">thanks!<br>
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