Here is an article that is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I have had great success converting old computers to Linux and firmly believe this article will work well for many people:

As someone who’s been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me.

Consider this: When Microsoft released Windows 11, it became clear that a lot of hardware (capable of running the previous iteration) wouldn’t support the new version of Windows. A lot of people wound up having to purchase new systems (if they wanted to stick with Windows). For some, that wasn’t an option, so they had to keep using a Windows operating system that would eventually fall out of support. That meant no more security updates, which can leave users (and their data) vulnerable.

If you’ve found yourself in such a situation, there’s hope by way of a handful of Linux distributions designed specifically for older (or less-powerful) hardware. With these operating systems, you can revive an old machine and make it run as though it were new.

Here are five Linux distributions that are perfectly at home on older (and even newer) hardware:

You can read the rest of the article  by Jack Wallen in the ZDnet web site at: https://bit.ly/4eKmaAR.