It’s actually crazy, that we live in a world, where a computer that was mid to high-end 4 years ago, can be called obsolete now, because… windows 11 says it is? It doesn’t make any fucking sense. All just to attempt to gaslight people into using secureboot
It’s also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would’ve been unheard of back in the 80’s and 90’s when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I’m loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft’s efforts to cut it short.
I have a 14 year old laptop running Linux Mint that I use daily. Sure, it’s had the HD and the battery replaced, but it’s still fine for most tasks. An SSD really improved performance.
My Thinkpad will turn 15 next year. It will probably be retired as my main laptop, but it will keep in bring useful in some fashion for a while still running Fedora.
Closer to 7 years for the newest unsupported machines.
And just because somethings obsolete doesn’t mean it’s unusable. Your CPU is probably considered obsolete and not getting security patches, but I bet you’re still using it.
We’ve seen W11 be installed on one of the first ever x86_64 machines with enough success. Obviously there are missing cpu instructions, but the majority of requirements differences between 10 and 11 are just bs, and an attempt at forced obsolescence
It’s actually crazy, that we live in a world, where a computer that was mid to high-end 4 years ago, can be called obsolete now, because… windows 11 says it is? It doesn’t make any fucking sense. All just to attempt to gaslight people into using secureboot
It’s also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would’ve been unheard of back in the 80’s and 90’s when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I’m loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft’s efforts to cut it short.
my thinkpad t420 is still going strong today :)
I have a 14 year old laptop running Linux Mint that I use daily. Sure, it’s had the HD and the battery replaced, but it’s still fine for most tasks. An SSD really improved performance.
My Thinkpad will turn 15 next year. It will probably be retired as my main laptop, but it will keep in bring useful in some fashion for a while still running Fedora.
Closer to 7 years for the newest unsupported machines.
And just because somethings obsolete doesn’t mean it’s unusable. Your CPU is probably considered obsolete and not getting security patches, but I bet you’re still using it.
We’ve seen W11 be installed on one of the first ever x86_64 machines with enough success. Obviously there are missing cpu instructions, but the majority of requirements differences between 10 and 11 are just bs, and an attempt at forced obsolescence