Remake of an older meme, just to add some extra pixel.
My PC is over 20 years old. I’ve only needed to replace the GPU twice, motherboard/ram twice, power supply once, and am on my third hard drive.
20 years, that’s a long time Dave.
What show is that?
Thank you.
Computer of Theseus 🤭.
I mean, I did something similar with my desktop, until it died because cats.
Ah, the computer of Theseus. My 20year old server of Theseus only has the chassis left of original parts. And an unplugged floppy and DVD drive xD
This chonky boy is 19 this year. He has dual Xeon quad cores, and 32gb of DDR2 and a 980Ti. He streams 4K videos with ease and plays most of my Steam library. He’s running Mint. And he eats about 425W while he does it.
That era of precisions was so good. I used a T7500 from around 2010 until a couple years ago
That’s sick! I ran a precision workstation 390 all the way up until 2016 before I finally decided to build myself a PC after years of building them for friends.
And he eats about 425W while he does it.
Chonky boy hungers
Just recently I built a backup-backup server out of a 2009 AMD Athlon CPU. Tried to run a DB via docker on it but could not as the CPU does not support newer instructions used by docker
Oh, that sucks. I have not run into any instruction set issues with my Precision, but all I really do with it is stream video and game up to Fallout 4 era. I actually wondered if I would run into problems since the Xeon 5355 is from freaking 2006, but all seems well so far.
10? That’s a rookie number.
A 10 year old high end or midrange PC isn’t even that slow today. Perfectly usable
My E3-1275v2 from 2012 is still perfectly usable for everything I do, alright.
IGP can even render 4k videos on a single display.
10 year old pc sounds like ancient tech, but its from 2016, time goes fast 👴
10 years, that’s like, 1995!
Note for second (or more) language speakers of English (and maybe a few first language folks as well): The plural ‘s’ is omitted when a sentence fragment is turned into an adjective. It’s supposed to have hyphens in it as well, though these are often left out.
So, for example, “My PC is ten years old and runs Linux” becomes “My ten-year-old PC runs Linux”.
In the case of this meme, it should be “My 10-year-old PC”.
Commendations on the shop. Very clever.
I can tell by the pixels and from seeing a few shops in my day
I run Linux on my potato and it’s running pretty fast.
Is that Mr. Bean in the chair? If not, it should be.
That image indeed is Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean)… I remember this episode. I was a child and this must be st least 15 years ago. But Mr Bean was shopping furniture and he had no room inside the car for himself anymore so he used a broom and stuff to drive the car from the chair on top of it.
It was hilarious.
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I would love to on my cheap-ass Nextbook Flexx 10. But the last time I heard anybody tried Linux on it, there was almost no driver support for it. I love how small it is, I don’t care if all i can do on it is browse the web slowly and maybe run LibreOffice.
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Well, I’m glad I looked at this again! It seems there has been progress! I know what I’m doing this weekend.
Well, I couldn’t wait. I tried a lot of distros. Some lightweight, some not. Including Fedora LXDE, which ran great but was not very pretty. I ended up settling on Lubuntu LTS. It was a very nice balance between performance and looks. Only uses about 500 MB of my precious 2 GB of ram. Even with Firefox open, it only hits 1 GB. LXQt seems pretty nice so far! This is so much faster than Win10 on here. Man, this thing is so weak. Ok, I’m tired. Here’s some pics. I am posting from the Flexx now.
Added 35% transparency to the terminal to match the sombre-et-rond theme for LXQt
Also, don’t need Minecraft. Luanti works just fine!
OpenRCT2 runs great on here! The crappy Intel graphics can even handle the OpenGL setting. Ok, this thing is officially revived now. Internet, a couple of games, and an office suite? What more could I ask for. This is going to be my coffee shop device again.
I seriously loved this thing when I was using it. It was my only laptop for years. I have desktops wherever I need a computer in the house, this was just a little thing take around. Then, the Windows updates really started slowing it down… Windows was bloating to take up most of the 32GB of internal storage. I tried replacing it with a 11" Android tablet, but Android is not a PC. Even with a keyboard and mouse, and the Taskbar launcher, it felt like it was just LARPing as a laptop.
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I really wanted to but couldn’t get it to work; it seems awesome! For some reason I couldn’t get my old MacBook to recognize it as bootable. I should try again sometime.
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8gb of ram is enough with gpu or MOBO. software just sucks
what is recommended cheap ass laptop to install mint on? Something I can get used or refurbished
The older Dell Latitude models are quite nice IMO. Like the 5000 series ones.
You can snag them for fairly cheap from Free Geek on eBay.
thanks will look into them! looks like Dell Latitude 5420, Intel Quad-Core i5-1145G7, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, for about $250 will be an upgrade to be 10year old lenovo!
lol I got a Dell Latitude 5420 with nearly the same specs, mine only came with 8GB of ram so I upgraded it to 32GB. I did that though almost 2 years ago when prices were sane though.
I’ve also loaded mine with Kubuntu, it came with Linux Mint though which was cool.
you still run Kubuntu on your dell? Other folks will have to use it and mint is straight forward to use so I will just go with that again. I did find a better price through for about $160 shipped through free geek but now I gotta get a charger. It arrives this week so excited :)
Oh yeah it’s still running Kubuntu, I haven’t had any issues with it so I haven’t bothered to switch to a different distro.
That’s a damn good deal you’re getting
Having to buy the charger aftermarket ain’t an issue IMO, it just means that it’ll be availible for longer in their store lol
I will say though that the laptop might have an odd feature that may catch you up like it did me, if left off for a clike a week it will need plugged in to power on. This is a battery saving feature of those Dell Latitudes (it may be on other models too, IDK) but basically it flips a relay to disconnect the battery and prevent it from killing the battery. It only happens when it’s been sitting off though, so if you keep using it it won’t trip.
