If you leave alone the haters, Ubuntu is doing great. Mint LDME also fantastic if you wish to have a rock solid base.

Cast it into the fire!!

Yeah Futurama

Very good read. Thanks for sharing!

Looks sick!

But considerably different compared to Obsidian in a lot of small ways. It was a deal breaker for me

The results are still useful today. There are a few basic measures of security that simply do not change and allows you to understand if your setup is secure enough to, say, run a bastion host or not

did not test with classic Mint but LMDE has been rock solid with WiFi

if you wanted to run macOS on this then yes, it would definitely be ewaste

XFce makes them snappy like when they where purchased back in the days?

At this point you could have moved them to Mint LMDE, which has GUI tools to to pretty much anything, and it is essentially Debian with Cinnamon and some extra tools built by the Mint team

Thank you!

Can you still install extensions in GNOME? I hate the defaults

Why?

That is the way

Debian server… maybe

lol yes

Is it Debian?

Meaning that your distro of choosing comes with most of the stuff bundled in…?

Yes, I also had a positive experience with Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook Air :)