I have always used second hand hardware, about 5 yrs old. It's cheap, well tested, and plenty of known bug/quirk workarounds. But after about ten yrs, the useful life curve seems to drop off dramatically, especially on hardware from a defunct vendor.tcat wrote:Hi,
Yes, I believe so, what computing resources you have, just currious? Do you buy a new computer with each OS release?
I have other platforms at home, but I used my legacy PC, (at those days experimental h/w), as a reference platform for testing OS relases. Between Potato-Lenny, I was getting new functionality with each release on this platform, past Lenny releases I was loosing the same fuctionallity gained before, in favour of user interface beauty that required constantly new faster h/w.
Tomas
People swear that hardware has gotten better and faster, but I still see machines all the time that take minutes to boot, seconds to respond, frequently crash or hang, etc.
It's a good observation you made, but it's probably not going to change.
I always do a full desktop environment install, and a lean window manager install. When I need some fancy app or browser, I use the DE, but when I want to get some work done, I really prefer the plain window manager and xterm.