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Free tech to speed up a virus filled laptop?
| Dustbin
| GNU plus Linux
| >>374753 hahaha just buy an apple computer dude apple is a great OS and it can't get any viruses at all.
| >>374775
Actually everything you wrote is bullshit.
Apple Hardware gets older and suffers from the increasing requirements of java-script bloated web-applications. Also apple shows low interest in supporting old hardware. If the latest version of their OSes stuck on their devices they give a shit and expect you to buy a new one.
And of course you can get viruses on an apple device just like on any other OS. In the case of apple it's not very unlikely compared to linux distros.
| >>374799
Well, I never even touched apple, but can you install a thing on macOS that is not from the glory hole called AppStore?
| As for the subject, it depends on what is screwed up on your laptop, how old is it etc.
The best solution would be to reinstall your OS. If it's Windows, I guess you can do it. Check Microsoft support for more info. If it's macOS, just go to an iStore. You can always try running Linux, like any other g/u/rl would say. Try some lightweight distro like Lubuntu.
That being said, if your hardware is broken, or if the ROM memory is overwritten, I doubt you'll get much from it.
| >>374832
Of course you can. I had to work with a Mac once, and the first things i did was installing homebrew, zshell, ffmpeg, imagemagick, vim, doublecommander, libreoffice, inkscape, vlc player and kdenlive. I had to do "sth with media" but i couldn't stand the proprietary shit the previous user installed. At least i killed his job by automatizing stuff he did manually lol. Technically apple is not that bad, it's just overprized and has too much lock-in stuff.
| As above you can cross compile most bad/Linux programs to Mac and if your lazy there is brew.sh to save time
| Most bsd/Linux not bad fuck you autocorrect
| The real answer is to just format and reinstall, windows if you want but Linux is preferred here obviously
| nuke the harddrive and install linux. That's the best way to get the most out of an old laptop.
| >>376085 How do you "nuke" a harddrive? And how do you get linux installed? I am new to all of this
| >>377895
you nuke it using thermite. by this point the hard drive is not useable, so it would be best to use a Linux live CD from now on.
| MalwareBytes?
| Best thing for old installs is just nuke them make a backup first though and access data you need from that backup after the fact
| Lots of water and salt, plug it to the socket and watch it go lightning fast.
>don't do it pls.
| Holy shit this is worse than /g/ lmao
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| I screwed up my laptop and now it's slow. Can anyone help?