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Meanwhile here I am, running linux distros and XFCE on everything. My hardware could be a decade old and I probably wouldn't notice. (In fact I DO have a spare
by safety1st 2y ago
Meanwhile here I am, running linux distros and XFCE on everything. My hardware could be a decade old and I probably wouldn't notice.
(In fact I DO have a spare 13 year old laptop hanging around that still gets used for web browsing, mail and stuff. It is not slow.)
- freedomben 2y agoIndeed, I have a 15-year-old desktop computer that is still running great on Linux. I upgraded the RAM to the maximum supported by the motherboard, which is 8 GB, and it has gone through three hard drives in its life, but otherwise it is pretty much the same. As a basic web browsing computer, and for light games, it is fantastic.
- safety1st 2y agoIt also performs pretty well for the particular brand of web development I do, which basically boils down to running VS Code, a browser, and a lot of ssh. It's fascinating to me how people are still attached to the hardware upgrade cycle as an idea that matters, and yet for a huge chunk of people and scenarios, basically an SSD, 8gb of RAM and an Intel i5 from a decade ago could have been the end of computing history with no real loss to productivity. I honestly look at people who use Apple or Windows with a bit of pity, because those ecosystems would just give me more stuff to worry about.