On 2018-02-23 03:30, nospam wrote:
In article , Ken Hart
wrote:

Same here. I have several machines that are 10-15 years old, and
severely under-powered. They bogged down terribly with WinXP, but now
run great with Lubuntu (a light-weight version of Ubuntu).

Why bother about 10-15 years old computers when you can buy a new one
for 200 Euro?

If that is still too expensive, you could buy a Raspberry Pi and put
Linux on it.

I haven't done the Euro to Dollar conversion, but I haven't paid three
digits for any of my old computers.

then whatever you have is junk.

That's quite presumptuous, since you have no idea what brands/models
computers I have.

it doesn't mater what brands/models they are.

anything that is 'bogged down terribly with winxp' is junk. your words.
winxp is hardly resource intensive.

the reality is that they're long obsolete and cannot run modern
software.

Ubuntu (Lubuntu) 16.04 is fairly modern, and is what I am running now on
all my "long obsolete" hardware.

ubuntu may be modern, but the hardware is too old to run modern
software, which mostly doesn't exist for linux anyway. you can't run
photoshop or lightroom under linux, even if you bought a brand new
computer.

Of course you can, if you find it.


old hardware might be ok for something like a (very) low demand server,
but that's about it.

At the time I switched to Linux- (I don't recall the date, but it was
around the time that XP was at announced end-of-life), most of my XP
computers had trouble opening Facebook. After switching to Linux (then
Lubuntu 14.04), my oldest and least powerful machines had no difficulty
with that metric.

that's not winxp bogging down, that's a web browser bogging down, which
most likely was not the same browser on each, rendering the comparison
entirely bogus.

What if some of my hardware is Apple? Ergo, based on
your statement, Apple is junk.

a 15 year old mac is also junk, except that it won't be 'bogged down
terribly' running mac os x from its era.

Again, I'm running reasonably modern Linux on older ("junk") machines
with no difficulty.

running linux is meaningless. what matters is what apps you're using.

the main problem with linux is the sheer lack of quality software,
photoshop and lightroom being two key examples that do not exist on
linux.

Because nobody would buy them. Too bad quality software.

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Cheers, Carlos.