alt Hacker News> Nowadays, you buy a new computer when the same software you've been running for years or the OS itself that demands to be updated "free" makes your machine intolerably slow.
This is, in my experience, not a thing on Linux.
> Nowadays, you buy a new computer when the same software you've been running for years or the OS itself that demands to be updated "free" makes your machine intolerably slow.
This is, in my experience, not a thing on Linux.
Sort of a thing on linux (and bsd) but not as often. An example is the mostly end of 32-bit computing, since 64-bit computing requires far more resources/RAM (arguably, some of that can be ameliorated with swapping, but it is wayyy less good).
Or the way so many people were on netbooks and the growing monolithic kernel kind of made the default gig or two of RAM less and less doable (I guess non-consumer-modifiable tablets and mostly soldered and increasingly locked down chromebooks took over most of that market, but it feels like people just take storage space, memory management, and hardware for granted, now).