Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by jandrese on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:08PM (#18982263)

Ubuntu seems fine on my older laptops, but Windows 10 is a different animal. I had an otherwise fast laptop that was almost unusable because Windows was always thrashing the slow spinning HDD. It could take 10 minutes or more after waking up from a sleep before the HDD light turned off (and even then off means a constant flicker). Apparently it's related to telemetry data Windows was constantly collecting for some reason. I eventually replaced the HDD with a SSD and the difference is night and day.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:04PM (#18984605)

I'll admit that Windows is a bigger offender in this regard, but Linux Desktop has become quite bloated too.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by jandrese on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:16PM (#18984702)

I had a really old laptop with a 2.4Ghz C2D and 2GB of RAM plus a 4600RPM (I think) 60GB HDD that I had to switch to Cinnamon, but after that it worked alright. Could even keep a few tabs open in Firefox. It really only had trouble when it ran out of memory and started swapping.

It doesn't seem as easy to switch Windows to a lighter desktop environment.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:46AM (#18988144)

Actually it kind of is, you just go to an older version of Windows. A surprisingly large amount of software will still work, or at the very least have alternatives that do. XP is really really snappy on modern hardware.

Granted, using XP today is not recommended for other reasons.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by jandrese on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:25PM (#18993137)

Can you even activate a copy of XP these days?

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