Am 19.10.20 um 18:47 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
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. 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?
Sorry to interrupt, but thats not true. ATM i have a 2013 System running and it's same as fast as it was 2013. No Firefox update changed that nor did it stop me from running games on 100 FPS+ on FHD (FX8350/16GBRAM). If you had made a choice for "invest more, keep it longer" in 2013, it still runs smooth. I even had a friend mentioning his >11y old (now) Win10 pc still running fine, and you know how much windows bloated in this time.
But if you bought your PC in 2013 with 2 Intel Mobile Cores and 2 GB RAM than it's your poor choice of hw in 2013 thats limiting you now. The times, when PC hw is obsoleted 5 years later, are over for the common users. What do they do? Watch Netflix, read mail, print picture. You simply don't need a 48 Core cpu for this.
In this spirit: Dropping legacy bios support is a mistake.
best regards, Marius