My old 6600 from 2016 is still running fine, I replaced the SSD (Intel 400GB to X25-E 64GB that will last 20 years minimum), the RAM (Micron to Samsung from aliexpress before the price hike... got 8 sticks of 16GB for $40 a pop for backup) and even the old trusty monitor (Both Eizo 5:4 matte VA; mercury tube to led, with f.lux/redshift the blue light is ok).

But with a 3050 upgrade from the 1050 and later 1030 (best GPU for eternity if you discount VR) I had in it it's good for another decade. If a game comes out that does not run on it I wont play it... simple as that... 150W is enough. So far only PUBG stutters, what a joke of bloat and poor engineering that game has become...

Win 10 improved NOTHING over 7. Win 11 improves NOTHING over 10.

YMMV but recommendation is still: do not buy new X86 hardware; do not use new OS/languages.

Build something good with what you have right now.

Make it so good it's still in use after 100 years.

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Rohansi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Win 10 improved NOTHING over 7

Windows 7 doesn't have compressed memory (ZRAM). Doesn't support TRIM for NVMe SSDs. Doesn't have WSL. Doesn't have ISO mounting built in. Doesn't have HDR, variable refresh rate, etc...

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Telaneo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The better statement is 'Win 10 improved nothing directly user-facing over Win 7'. Sure, there are several technical improvements under the hood, but those are completely detached from what the user actually sees and experiences, and there's no real reason we couldn't have the Windows 10 technical improvements with a Windows 7 UI, other than Microsoft being the abusive parent that it is.

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bullen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are those really improvements though.

RAM maybe wears quicker if compressed?

NVMe will break long before a good old SATA drive.

WSL... lol

ISO you can do with daemon tools for free...

Displays are good enough at 60Hz 5:4 matte.

	▲	Dylan16807 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> NVMe will break long before a good old SATA drive. What gave you that idea? > RAM maybe wears quicker if compressed? Is this serious? The rest of your post seems serious, but that's such a silly idea.
	▲	sys_64738 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		WSL is an excellent Micro-Soft technology.

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jazzyjackson 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have fedora xfce running beautifully on a 2011 i5 Mac mini. Replacing the hard disk with modern SSD was all it took to get it running at acceptable speeds where interacting with xfce is roughly instantaneous

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some-guy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Win 10 improved NOTHING over 7. Win 11 improves NOTHING over 10.

You had me up to this point. The problem is that there are actually quite a few improvements under the hood over those upgrade paths, but they are unfortunately hidden under all of the bullshit. I was an early adopter of Windows 11 specifically because of their efficiency core support over Windows 10 when I upgraded my CPU.

	▲	bullen 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You need to look at the cost of improvements, and they overshadow all progress. I'm going linux with TWM (desktop with design look from the 70s) on ARM because M$ is clearly not thinking about the long perspective. We need a stable platform to build quality software. And that's saying alot seen how linux is deprecating libc after very short time and the legacy joystick API is not being compiled into modern kernels anymore. Stability is way more important than bells and whistles.