Not only that, but there's such a backlog of great, reliable desktop machines from the last decade! For most stay-indoors purposes, a seven-year-old Dell machin

Not only that, but there's such a backlog of great, reliable desktop machines from the last decade! For most stay-indoors purposes, a seven-year-old Dell machine is just fine, and due to the numbers produced is effectively free (or near-free if you need to add some more memory and a new video card before it seems right). Of course I remember laughing at the crusty oldtimers who, back in 2000, swore they were happy using a '386 running Debian for all their needs. Forgive me if I'm sounding like one of them.