On 10/19/20 6:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
The issue is that while 'moore's' law was no longer doubling every 18months it was still working and tasks had to be rewritten to work with more cores/threads/etc. As that happened the software's need for more CPU power has increased to the point were a 10+ year computer isn't very useful for 'modern' software (browser and various applications). Instead if you want to have something work on a 2012 system well.. just use software from 2012. It is still available.
I know you know, you are being polemic and cheating. 2012's SW is unusable today.
Sure you can install Linux on that 15 year old computer but if you have to tell the user well you can't actually use a browser, an editor or half the things you can do on your cheapest smart-phone.. what use is that computer?
Do yourselves a favor and try it yourselves: A 2012 mid-class system still outperforms many todays low-end systems and many notebooks.
These systems are well suitable for many purposes!
Ralf