Seen in my company
There is no old computer only bad os.
To be fair you can 100% have a PC that’s too old and/or too low speced to run Linux with certain desktops. For example I personally wouldn’t use a PC with under 8gb of ram today if I wanted to run a modern desktop and Wayland compositors basically require (or soon will) Vulkan 1.0 support (for Nvidia that’s Kepler GK110 or later, AMD GCN 1.1 or later, and Intel Broadwell or later)
is anything you can’t do with antix on a pentium 4 even worth doing
@Gulliver@lemmy.zip What does the French say?
windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.
Crashing? With the context of the pictures and similarities with Spanish and Catalan idioms I would say windows stands you up.
windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.
Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P
I yearn for my old 486. the best rig I have ever owned.
Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.
I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.
It’s OK, gramps, let’s get you back to bed.
Oh sweet child, you’ll never understand the pleasure of cutting motherboard PCB traces and replacing resistors to overclock a DX2 to 90MHz to play freely distributed CD-ROM cereal box AoE.
I already had a 233 MHz PII when AoE came out, so no.
I was poor as fuck back in AoE times, my computer was already oolllllld.
Back in my day we used to have to draw on the processor with a graphite pencil in order to unlock overclocking.
Kids these days with their UEFI and Windows-based overclocking utilities…
I still have my cereal box AoE CD somewhere…
Hey, it was really better times when you could have your computer in any colo(u)r you wanted, so long as it was beige.
Now you can have any colour you want, but they have mandatory LEDs embedded in every peripheral a d they no longer sell opaque cases.
You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.
Alternatively you can use Debian and keep using an older kernel :3
I read that to the melody of “What does the Fox say?”.
rip bozo 😂
Windows killing Wireguard is another name in the coffin for me.
Still need it for Playit Live and Excel VBA but that’s about it now.
Use WinBoat to run 2D applications like Excel. I’m not familiar with Playit Live, but it seems to be the kind of application that WinBoat works well with.
