lol my dear employer's IT departement telling me to order a new laptop because windows 10 is eol and apparently they can't upgrade that stuff ...
meanwhile the linux machines here very much only get retired when the hardware is dead or just too old
@sima Oh, please. Try to run anything on i686. I could see that point if you tried to present a BSD as the savior if the obsolete computers.
@sima @pro Most distros have dropped i686 already, and the few that are left are very nerdish distros like Devuan and Debian. Not exactly something that I'd turn a beginner user loose on. Most of the popular desktop environments are too fat for an old 4gig system as well. Those developing for it are mostly targeting higher end stuff, so desktop apps on linux are getting less and less optimized. Sure, you can make linux fit a tiny old system, but it's getting harder.
@kazriko @pro the claim was that linux can't run i686 anymore, which is blatant nonsense
that running about 20 year old systems (amd's K8 is that old, yes) isn't entirely mainstream anymore is about the most unsurprising realization ever
and don't tell me haiku and *bsd are mainstream while debian somehow is too niche to even consider
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