Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Let your old computer have a second life

a repost from Why Linux is Better

Windows requires more and more hardware power as its version number increases (95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, etc.). So if you want to keep running Windows, you need to constantly buy new hardware. But I can't see any good reason for so fast an evolution. Of course, many people need a lot of computer power and new hardware and technologies are really helping them. But for most users, who surf the web, read and write emails, write text files and slides, what's the point of buying a new computer every 2, 3 or 4 years, apart from letting computer vendors earn more money? What is exactly the profound reason why your computer can't do any more of what it did perfectly well 5 years ago?

Ubuntu Linux runs perfectly well on older hardware, on which Windows XP would. Ubuntu Linux will run very well on it and allow you to perform usual tasks (surfing the web, writing documents, etc.) just fine. The very computer that delivers this page to you is not very young and runs Ubuntu Linux: if you can read this, then it is up and running (and if the website loads slowly, blame my Internet connection only).

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