In a past life I did my time as manager of a Unix minicomputer, I don't want to go back to anything remotely related.Take your old system and stick Linux Mint
In a past life I did my time as manager of a Unix minicomputer, I don't want to go back to anything remotely related.Take your old system and stick Linux Mint
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Stay away from gentoo emerge world, sure. Regular old Linux pre-installed on a desktop is pretty rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty.In a past life I did my time as manager of a Unix minicomputer, I don't want to go back to anything remotely related.
Also I find Ubuntu to be rock solid, but I haven't tried it on AMD chipsets yet.Stay away from gentoo emerge world, sure. Regular old Linux pre-installed on a desktop is pretty rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty.
I've been using a Logitech trackball for a long time with my laptops. I've worn out 2 of them already. I sit on the sofa with the laptop on my lap and the trackball laying on the sofa beside me. I've never been very good with a touchpad, I'm almost as good with the trackball as I am with a mouse. Or maybe I should say that I'm as good with the trackball as I am with a mouse for everything except autocad.I got a MacBook about 10 years ago and what I liked about it is the large, easy-to-use trackpad
Yeah, my desktop is still in the case I built my first PC back in high school with (not quite 90s old though ).I have 3 older, err... old cases that I built computers in, starting in the 90's. I upgrade stuff as needed; Older stuff gets sold or repurposed. I played games for years, until the lootbox disease that infected the industry took over. We still play Crysis wars, Quake 2, and various far cry games. occasionally. The last FC I played was badly infected with lootboxes. And the plotlines are pretty bad. but FC1,2 and 4 were pretty fun. I'm currently working on some old servers I want to set up to play Duke Nukem 3d I'm in the process of upgrading my tv computer; I have a 60" 3d plasma TV that I use as it's monitor. Playing Crysis 3 wearing the 3d goggles requires seatbelts on the chairs, lol.
I thought it would be fun to play and let the others in our group watch us play, but motion sickness is a major problem.
Upgrading is more expensive than buying an econobox, but performance has always been my thing.
I second that. The I7-4790 I run on is using an Arch Linux derivative. Many flavors of Linux exist, all give you freedom from the Microsoft tax. Usually faster than Windows on most machines, and comes with mostly equivalent software that's completely free..Take your old system and stick Linux Mint on it after you get your new machine. Yeah you can't use WinBlows stuff on it without using an emulator but Mint or any form of Linux runs snappier on older hardware and a lot AND I MEAN A LOT of software is available free or minimal cost.
On a Slackware system with the WINE emulator installed, I ran all of the programming software for all my deployment devices with no problems once debugged. Windows games don't work well under emulation though I haven't tried in years. Am not a gamer anyways. Even had Rocksim running on a linux machine just fine.
I was tied to Microsoft stuff at work so lived with it. When I retired, I kept my two older laptops and put Linux on them. I asked and the company didn't want them back so I wasn't stealing from them. I believed it was justified as the old machines wouldn't run their proprietary software fast enough. Shoot, I'm typing this message on a measly dual core Fujitsu Lifebook T Series. Kurt
Don't forget the 3.11 upgrade so you get a functioning TCP/IP stack ( or Vines or NetWare if you're into that sort of thing ).Another followup on my new Windows 11 computer:
Nope. If I had it to do over I'd wait at least a year for some of the bugs to be shaken out.
It's actually running more slowly---on many programs and searches---than the old Win10 laptop, which has half the RAM and a lower-grade processor. I've had a second "Not Responding" error that required a shut down and restart.
I'm considering installing Windows 3.1 from the seven 1.44MB floppies I found the other day...
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