You may not be able to afford a $1,000 laptop while in college, but you can't afford to complete your degree on an old, beat-up one either. Trust me.

I’ve never owned an Apple device before and I have no desire to become trapped in that walled garden, but a sleek, fun, functional low-end laptop might be worth deprograming my Windows-pilled brain ...

If you're looking for a distribution for an aging machine and you want to go with something other than a Ubuntu-based distribution, walk through the Arch with Omega.