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Would you buy a new battery for a very old laptop?
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I'd do it, even with the risk of buying a crap battery, especially with Arch. I'm typing this on a 2014 Lenovo with Arch and XFCE. The main thing it has trouble with is the external 4K display which is a bit sluggish--I turned compositing off to make it a bit better. The battery health is about 80%, last I checked, so I haven't bothered to replace it. (Also, full disclosure, this is effectively my "desktop", so it stays plugged in all the time; I keep the battery charged to 50%.)
But I tend to run computers until they die die, getting a perverse kick out of maximizing the use of old hardware. This machine used to be a Windows machine until it became so sluggish as to be unusable. Putting Linux on it was like dropping the lead weights in a sprint.