Eh. My main desktop is a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz from 2005. I'm typing this comment on said machine right now. It's running Kubuntu and I'm running the latest versio

Eh. My main desktop is a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz from 2005. I'm typing this comment on said machine right now. It's running Kubuntu and I'm running the latest versions of everything on this -- Chrome, RStudio, etc. -- and it runs plenty fast. I have a Windows 10 computer at work with the latest i7 chip which feels slightly faster, but not that much. Most software these days aren't CPU-bound but IO bound. I got the most performance boost upgrading to an SSD and upping the RAM to 8 GB. If you run Linux, you can have a very comfortable experience running on hardware from yesteryears. Throwing out a perfectly good machine is a waste.