Forgot my laptop charger at the office for a week long event this past week and no time to recover it from the office. Had a 13 year old system76 laptop in the closet. Grabbed a spare external SSD (had an internal HDD), put the latest version of Ubuntu on it, and it worked flawlessly for the week without an issue. I maintain a dotfiles repo and keep backups of everything on b2 using rclone that encrypts/decrypts the files. Took less than hour to have my entire workflow ready to go on a new install without relying on proprietary spyware (icloud/one drive).
That’s great except that all sounds like some crazy complex jibberish to most folks. Unfortunately most of the public needs a no technical skills required workstation.
You make a solid point. I don’t know shit about fixing cars and I am a decade behind on home repair skills after spending most of my life geeking out on Linux.
In the middle I suppose their is an argument to be made that software support doesn’t need to stop after a few years. Point I was trying to convey, which I admit is just one anecdote, is that my modern setup worked flawlessly on hardware older than 10 years.
Forgot my laptop charger at the office for a week long event this past week and no time to recover it from the office. Had a 13 year old system76 laptop in the closet. Grabbed a spare external SSD (had an internal HDD), put the latest version of Ubuntu on it, and it worked flawlessly for the week without an issue. I maintain a dotfiles repo and keep backups of everything on b2 using rclone that encrypts/decrypts the files. Took less than hour to have my entire workflow ready to go on a new install without relying on proprietary spyware (icloud/one drive).
That’s great except that all sounds like some crazy complex jibberish to most folks. Unfortunately most of the public needs a no technical skills required workstation.
You make a solid point. I don’t know shit about fixing cars and I am a decade behind on home repair skills after spending most of my life geeking out on Linux.
In the middle I suppose their is an argument to be made that software support doesn’t need to stop after a few years. Point I was trying to convey, which I admit is just one anecdote, is that my modern setup worked flawlessly on hardware older than 10 years.