And for my next trick

 I have an old, and I mean old Dell Latitude E6320, it's probably around fourteen or fifteen years old.

It's so old it still has a Windows 7 sticker on the case.

The trackpad doesn't work well (although a mouse is fine), and the battery is down to 27%. I could replace the battery but at around fifty bucks for a third party replacement battery it's probably not worth doing given the age of the machine and the dodgy trackpad.

By rights it ought to have gone to the recycler long ago.

The only reason I keep it is that, amazingly, the CD ROM drive still works, and it's helped me get data off of CDs before now.

It was on an old version of Crunchbang plus plus, and could do with an upgrade, so I upgraded it to Xubuntu, given that I've already had quite a lot of success with some other of my older machines.

There was no battling sea monsters during the upgrade process, basically it just worked

and after about ninety minutes I had a working install

and I then ran a sudo apt-get update followed by a sudo apt-get upgrade to ensure the software was fully up to date, rebooted, made a couple of cosmetic tweaks, and there we are

as the machine's only really being given desk space due to it's working cd drive, I havn't bothered installing any of the extra software (Notable, gwenview, jrnl, etc) I normally install.

However, I have proved you can successfully install the current release of Xubuntu on a scruffy fourteen year old Dell Latitude ...