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I have a few answers to this question. The first computers I used: Several Pentiums and i486's running MSDOS, Win95, Win98, and Win2000 are what I grew up wit
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
I have a few answers to this question.
The first computers I used:
Several Pentiums and i486's running MSDOS, Win95, Win98, and Win2000 are what I grew up with.
First computer I built:
A socket 426 motherboard I got from a large dumpster, an Athlon XP 2600+ (2ghz) from ebay, and an ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 Edition (a Radeon 9600 256mb with built-in RCA input) my dad couldn't get working in his system.
That video card is why I passionately hate closed-source drivers. As of ~5 years ago, the free Radeon driver has been up to snuff, but alas, too late.
In this span of time, I built several PCs with second-hand parts, and installed many a GNU/Linux distro (roughly in the order Ubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Debian -> Archlinux -> NixOS with Gentoo, Debian, TinyCore, Fedora, etc. scattered between). I even got a 2011 Macbook Pro secondhand, and learned how to deal with the abuse that is Apple's EFI (not UEFI) - especially when the CD drive stopped working - right up until it melted.
The first system I bought parts for (I finally had real money!):
ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0, AMD FX-8320E, 2x 4gb 2133 cas10 dimms, 500W semi-modular PSU, NVidia GeForce GT 720.
Still my main system, but with a couple of AMD RX 480's instead of NVidia, and a beefier PSU, SSDs, etc.