Great video. You'll be glad to read that the computer on which I am typing this is about 8 years old.
EIGHT YEARS OLD? How can I stand a computer that old and out-of-date?
Well, I wiped the hard disk clean... bye-bye, Windows... and installed Ubuntu Linux, which, in addition to being FREE (and having lots of FREE applications available), is also a bit faster than Windows on any given hardware. So this machine probably responds about as fast as your, say, two-year-old Windows box.
So far, I've found exactly one thing I can't do on Linux that I can do on Windows... play a particular format of streaming audio file... and I'm sure that will be fixed in less than a year by someone who will provide a new driver for FREE.
So there's another way to increase the mean-time-to-dump of some equipment: dump Windows!
[CAPTCHA text: "chiting", which I'm sure is what Microsoft would say about what I'm doing!]
Great video. You'll be glad to read that the computer on which I am typing this is about 8 years old.
ReplyDeleteEIGHT YEARS OLD? How can I stand a computer that old and out-of-date?
Well, I wiped the hard disk clean... bye-bye, Windows... and installed Ubuntu Linux, which, in addition to being FREE (and having lots of FREE applications available), is also a bit faster than Windows on any given hardware. So this machine probably responds about as fast as your, say, two-year-old Windows box.
So far, I've found exactly one thing I can't do on Linux that I can do on Windows... play a particular format of streaming audio file... and I'm sure that will be fixed in less than a year by someone who will provide a new driver for FREE.
So there's another way to increase the mean-time-to-dump of some equipment: dump Windows!
[CAPTCHA text: "chiting", which I'm sure is what Microsoft would say about what I'm doing!]
Weird... my statement never showed up. Musta not clicked right....
ReplyDeleteAnyway, hubby and son use Ubuntu on some of the computers, I have yet to learn to navigate on it.
Love salvaging old computers, they can be useful long after their 'shelf life' has expired....