What to do with an old computer?

Hello Sup Forums! Right now for school I am using a decent laptop that I share with my wife until I decide to build a new desktop sometime around the end of the year. I have an HP Pavilion DV4 that I used a fair amount years ago but now that I have access to a better computer this thing has fallen to the wayside. I would love some suggestions on what kind of projects I could do with it; so far I have thought about using it to learn linux with one of those nice lightweight distributions like Lubuntu. It can't really handle any major games or software, but the 4 gigs of RAM and Turion X2 let it browse the web decently and I'm sure it could do plenty of other light tasks if I could figure out what I wanted it to do.

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if your ok with using a botnet OS then install Cloudready, which is basically ChromeOS. that laptop will be great for general web browsing

Older machines like that are great for learning Linux. In addition to learning something new, you get up to date software on a hardware that's still usable today despite its age.

I am pretty sure something like this is what I want to do. My experience with Linux is pretty limited, I have used Knoppix and Porteus on external hard drives to bypass administrative controls on public computers, but usually for those I don't do much besides browsing the web so I would really like to learn more in depth. The only scary thing for me is installing stuff; I just remember it being really frustrating to have to do so much through the terminal. I just need to man up and learn it though.

It's actually pretty easy these days.
On CentOS the package manager is yum
On Debian and its forks, it's apt
On Arch, and its forks, it's pacman.

Read the manual page for them, and you should have no problem searching for packages, installing them, and updating.

>take off the panel
>buy a $10-15 LCD controller board
>connect the two pieces together
You just made a second screen for your laptop (you can use it for better multitasking)

Install Focuswriter and write a short story.

Install Android nougat natively on the HDD and let your inner geek heart faster.

xubuntu

This. By the way, the Arch wiki has a nice in-depth comparison.
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

Just throw it away lol.
There are only three types of laptops that sell well used.
>thinkpads
>macbooks
>toughbooks
If it isn't any of those three don't bother.

>Turion X2
I have the DV6 model.
The CPU had a faulty core, and now I have to disable it as soon I boot, or I get BSoD or kernel panic.
I find it useful as paperweight.

>apt autoremove
>pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs -
hahahaha

And people defend Arch.

>save command as /usr/bin/pacman-autoremove
>run command when needed

wow that was hard

I agree it’s dumb that they don’t include that as a normal command like apt but the solution is literally that easy.

I know it's easy to adjust, but software should have sane defaults.

I used my old laptop to learn linux and templeos

>wife
>my

If it's new enough to have HDMI or even DVI then you could use it as a HTPC

Get a browser and install AdNauseam and run the jsfiddle script. Get some GPU's to mine some dosh so it can fund itself.

Old house pavilion == trash

Will probably overheat from dust alone running a headless server.