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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:40:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 1/19/25 10:53 PM, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 1/19/25 2:22 AM, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 1/18/25 4:08 PM, DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/18/2025 1:07 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I reject the Win platform as a dead end.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Windows will long outlive you and all the other doomsday cola advocates.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Explain how to keep up with demands on hardware without replacing
>>>>>>> motherboard every three years.  "Don't upgrade to Win12" only supports
>>>>>>> my point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Total absurd bullshit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You have NEVER needed to upgrade/replace your mobo every 3 years for a
>>>>>> new version of Windows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I've requested several times, make sure to keep your current hardware
>>>>>> around so I can rub your Linuxy face in it when Win13 installs and runs
>>>>>> just fine on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have to agree with you here. There was pressure to buy new hardware
>>>>> every two or three years back in the 90s, but hardware nowadays easily
>>>>> goes a decade with the original operating system on it. However, Windows
>>>>> in that time will become unbearably slow for most users since they
>>>>> usually have no idea how to maintain it. Linux, for its part, will be
>>>>> just as fast ten years down the line as it was on day one.
>>>>
>>>> And considerably faster if you replace the hard drive with an SSD. My old
>>>> computers are "living" proof of that.
>>>
>>> I can't even imagine using a computer with a hard disk nowadays. I guess
>>> it takes severe retardation, like the one Larry Pietraskiewicz is
>>> suffering from, to see benefits to using one.
>> 
>> Hard drives work pretty well for backing up files when used in USB
>> enclosures. That's basically all I use them for now.
>
> Perhaps, but I wouldn't even trust them for that. The WD laptop hard 
> disk I got to replace the one that came with my Sony laptop died within 
> eight months. The one it replaced lasted a year. I bought an external 
> 2TB Seagate hard disk from Walmart and I just found out that it died 
> too, about two years after purchase. The only hard disk I can think of 
> that lasted a while is the one in my parents' Mac Mini which is still 
> kicking after more than a decade. The technology is just not as sturdy 
> as it once was.

I guess I'm still using technology that "once was," as I haven't any major 
hard drive problems since the mid 90s.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien