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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:31:22 -0500
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-hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 12/18/24 9:23 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>> <who cares?>
>
> Linux's lightweight OS characteristics make it quite suitable for any 
> old hardware which it can run on, particularly when the user 
> expectations are basic (eg, web surfing, email, newsgroups).

You left out audio/video/photo editing, screen-casting, software development,
painting, MIDI, pen-testing, servers of all kinds, ...

Much of with is manageable on old hardware, as well.

Years ago I installed Linux on a single-core Acer laptop. I could run
SolidWorks on it in a VM on that little shit-box. It was my main laptop before
the Corporation started handing out decent hardware.

-- 
There cannot be a crisis next week.  My schedule is already full.
		-- Henry Kissinger