What year is your computer? How old?

[newtusmaximus]

ptyerman, my concern re QUIRKY was what happens when Barry decides to retire again .    maybe OK for an enthusiast/hobbyist  but for SOHO  user with wife and bank manager to support ?

[ptyerman]

Well neither I nor anyone else suggested it was even suitable for SOHO or serious use! It is what it is, an experimental, hobbyist OS. We are in a thread about old computers after all, you'll find they're hardly suitable for SOHO and banking!

[Teddy]

My daily driver is a 2016 ASUS ROG G752VT-DH74. The specs are in my signature. My dad happens to have the same laptop as well, but his is slightly weaker than mine and had no preinstalled SSD in it (though I fixed that for him within weeks of getting the machine refurbished from eBay.) Both of these machines are "laptops" but only in the name. These are really desktop replacements because they are so large. 17 inch screen size. I had trouble finding a backpack that could fit a machine this large and thick. Battery life: 30mins-1hour, cut that in half if gaming unplugged.

My travel laptop is a 2013 HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e015dx, little 11 inch netbook. Has a swappable battery bay which is something that's becoming rare these days. This one is also touchscreen, but it's next to useless on Linux. It's now a strictly Linux machine, Linux Lite of course, but have run Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro at one point or another in the past. Battery life I get about 3-4 hours, and am looking to purchase another (maybe 2) batteries for uninterrupted unplug sessions out and about on college campus. AMD A6-1450 APU processor with AMD Radeon HD8250 graphics, 4Gb RAM.

[newtusmaximus]

ptyerman
The HP  in my signature is my main desktop for SOHO, and gets a hammering daily.  The Fuji Si1520 laptop is my "run around" etc.  Both circa 12 years old and working fine; Thanks to LL of course !  Mind you the HP doubles as an air filter and needs a thorough internal Spring Clean every year

[TheDead]

I was just given an i5-2400 PC. I was happy then I found out it also had 16GB of RAM... wowza! :-D
Only problem is that it crashes randomly *sad*. Currently testing each 4GB memory stick... two of then seem to work fine.
Took the time to upgrade the BIOS, just in case. Two RAM sticks to go, cross fingers. Hope it's not a motherboard problem.
I wonder which OS I'll install on there... wink wink!

Cheers!

[ptyerman]

ptyerman
The HP  in my signature is my main desktop for SOHO, and gets a hammering daily.  The Fuji Si1520 laptop is my "run around" etc.  Both circa 12 years old and working fine; Thanks to LL of course !  Mind you the HP doubles as an air filter and needs a thorough internal Spring Clean every year

My home server/CCTV system is also a Core2Duo with 4Gb of RAM, running Windows 7 x64. My main system is a first generation Core i7 that I built in 2010. That's hardly a 15 year old 32 bit system with 1Gb of RAM though is it? That is what those posts were about, OLD 32 bit systems and the diminishing amount of support for 32 bit. Read back a little and you should pick up where you went astray! Honestly, operating systems and computers don't warrant a religion over them!