Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on the machines and making them somewhat usable for a web browsing experience for students? They’re useless as is, running ancient windows OS’s. We’re talking pre-7th gen i5’s and in some cases pentium machines here.
Might be pointless but wonder what you guys think?
It definitely will work, I think you need to figure out how you would handle securing them for students, how are they going to log in with their AD usernames, how do you lock them down from messing with the system,how will you get them their shared drives if they have any, how to prevent them getting around vpn/proxy blocking etc. All this you’d normally do with group policy. I’m interested to see what you do.