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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.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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