The Terribly Tragically Sad Computer Owner

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[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are absolutely right. Big tech corporations have been undermining the ability of the average computer user to achieve their goals for decades by deliberately slowing their systems to a crawl by pushing updates that do nothing more usefull than bloat the resource requirements of their software and spy on the users.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like the idea of using old kit. The emphasis I can see, and perhaps something worth an article in itself, is security. I saw the suggestion on isolating older kit from the Internet (e.g. if running Windows XP). That's fine if the computer is used purely for running old games, but less useful if using it for productivity. I generally use virtual machines for running the older stuff as I know it's well isolated and can contain malware if it gets in there.

The idea of installing Linux or some other free OS (e.g. a BSD) on older hardware is a good one. I wouldn't bother with that on my old PowerBooks as their sole purpose is to run old Mac OS software. On this current 2016 MacBook Pro I'll probably dual-boot it when I no longer receive macOS updates, keeping a 32-bit macOS install for games and a BSD for when I want to do something more productive.

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's incredible how slow basic programs are now, when they're ostensibly doing the same thing they were 20 years ago.