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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:57:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> To be fair, I run an oldish laptop with 4GB RAM and Linux Mint, It does
> have an NVME but its predecessor had spinning rust.

My Mint box is a 2011 Acer Aspire netbook with 4GB of RAM. I did replace 
the rust with a SATA SSD.  It's usable and probably better than the 
original XP.