I'm finding software bloat to be the biggest prohibiting factor. I'm continually astonished by how much worse each update brings. Even Linux will not stop bloat

I'm finding software bloat to be the biggest prohibiting factor. I'm continually astonished by how much worse each update brings. Even Linux will not stop bloating. It used to be that one could surf the Internet with a graphical user-interface using a 100 mhz cpu with 16 megabytes (not gigabytes) of memory. That same machine would be fairly snappy for checking email, writing documents and programming. It would even run 3D games, and with an accelerator card at 24 mhz, it would run them fairly smoothly too. For everyday use, I think the most retro I'm having some limited success using is not very retro, it's an imac running osx 10.6.8, a very capable machine, but still, no match for the bloat of modern websites. (HN excluded, that, and many of the articles it links too work well enouhg).