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   Monsieur to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Mint on a mini pc   
   26 Jun 25 10:53:39   
   
   From: Monsieur@notreal.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:43:19 +0200, Monsieur wrote:   
   >   
   >> Or will any old mini pc do just fine for Mint?   
   >   
   > I set up an MSI Cubi 5 for a friend, running Mint Cinnamon. This was to   
   > introduce a young child, son of a friend of his, to the joys of retro   
   > gaming under PCem. I set up a “captive” account which would boot the   
   > Windows-98 emulator as soon as you logged in, and quitting that would log   
   > you out again.   
      
   That's about what I want to use it for too. Normal daily work stuff,   
   watching videos and running emulators and a few VM's from time to time.   
      
   Preferably without the cooling fans freaking out, like the ones on my   
   current desktop.   
      
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