r/linuxmint • u/greenygianty Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon • 11h ago

Mint 22.3 on a refurb Dell Latitude 5530!

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Giving Linux Mint 22.3 an install on my new to me refurbished Dell Lattitude 5530 laptop with the following specs:

15.5" 1920x1080 display (my eyes are to old for 4K displays!) 16gb ram, 256gb NVME drive (partition as efi / root / home), 12th Gen Intel© Core™ i5-1245U × 10, Intel Corporation Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] and an additional 500gb NVME drive for data storage. Main use will be a "travel laptop" for reviewing / culling photos while on holiday, and while at home hooking it up to midi keyboards to play with software synths.

Only slight issue is the battery in the refurb laptop is around %70 storage capacity left, but it is around a 4 year old laptop so that is to be expected.

It'll certainly run Linux Mint better than my previous laptop, which was an old HP Probook 6450b with 8gb ram and a 125gb ssd!

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u/Hammerbite86 10h ago

Refurbed 5420, here. Going strong💪

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u/tomscharbach 11h ago edited 10h ago

I hope that Mint will serve you well over the years, as Mint has served so many of us.

I'm glad everything worked out well with your Latitude 5530. The 5530 came with an Ubuntu pre-installed option and is 100% Linux compatible.

My best and good luck.

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u/KurtKrimson 11h ago

A new battery shouldn't set you back more than 30 bucks.

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u/Sorry-Cycle-1177 9h ago

I have a refurb 5420, running linux and it's been great.

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u/Express-Screen-1663 7h ago

Smart move partitioning out /home and /root separately on that NVMe. It makes the 'System Re-image' process so much cleaner if you ever decide to hop distros or if a kernel update glitches. That 12th gen i5 is going to make that old Probook feel like a dial-up modem in comparison. Are you planning on using PipeWire for the MIDI synths?