Install Linux on that old gentleman and he’ll be dancing the cha-cha

Only ten years old? Hell my desktop is around that age, doing just fine. I do need to get some more memory though, 16GB isn’t quite cutting it for the number of programs I’m running simultaneously these days (and having 2500 open tabs in firefox doesn’t help). That’s the beauty of linux though, it never forces you to upgrade or chokes out your system with unwanted ads and background processes.

i like that he smiles in the end

My Thinkpad T440p is over a decade old ans still running smoothly, I just threw in a ssd and 8gb of ram :3

I got a new laptop last year, and now the old one is sitting next to my laser engraver, probably hoping I will never open it again but it’s going to be my dedicated laser laptop now.

At least the programs I’m using on it are all 5ish years old, so it’s not straining to keep up with new software.

I can still feel it heat up a lot just being idle, and I’d like to clean it up to improve it’s response time.

This comic has made me feel bad for my old laptop…

My almost 10 year old laptop is running proxmox. The display is busted, keyboard and touchpad doesn’t work the battery only lasts for 10mins but it is still running 3VMs and 2 LXC containers. And after seeing this I feel like I’ll be the first one on chopping block once robot uprising starts.

😄my 10y old macBookPro running endeavourOS can still be used for most tasks I need a PC for

Some on the Go music production, some websurfing (including using my self hosted web apps), and some coding, of course.

Most ten year old laptops I see are in a so great shape, that the meme doesn’t really apply anymore.

Still using my 2009 Dell Inspiron 11z occasionally.