How old is your PC? | TheaterFire

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My ThinkPad is from 2013 (i5, 12GB, Linux Mint XFCE) Asus CN62 Chromebox from 2015 (i7, 16 GB, Linux Mint Cinnamon) Asus CN65 Chromebox from 2018 (i7,32GB, nvme, Linux Mint Cinnamon) Asus CN65 Chromebox from 2018 (i3, 8GB, nvme, Debian)

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monseiurMystere@reddit

I'm running a HP EliteBook 830 G5, which has a 7th Gen i5-7200U processor with 16GB DDR4 RAM. So, not that old.

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empathic-egoist@reddit

The oldest computer running Linux is my I7 7700k that my daughter is playing Farming Simulator on. Ubuntu 24.04

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West_Examination6241@reddit

Baj estére van egy asztali i3 8gb rammal , ubuntuval , és winfos 10 el

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gibarel1@reddit

Everything except PSU and case is ~2 years old

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Decent-Fondant7122@reddit

what pc 😢

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1369ic@reddit

My laptop is a 2020 Asus G14. It's a gaming laptop, but I've never installed the NVIDIA drivers because I don't game. I bought it on close out because I wanted something that would last several years into my retirement. I had horrible battery life with it at first because drivers were slow to get into the kernel. Now I run Void with KDE Plasma. I'm getting kind of antsy to upgrade because I'd like an OLED screen, but it runs too well to replace.

I also have 2014 MacBook Pro that's a hand-me-down from when my wife upgraded. I run MXLinux on it because it has a funky broadcom Wi-Fi card and it worked out of the box with MX. I rarely use it, but it's still a great little machine.

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Puzzled-Spell-3810@reddit

I’m currently using an M3 Pro MacBook Pro running macOS and a Dell Inspiron 5320 with Manjaro KDE. Honestly, I’ve grown a bit tired of the MacBook and decided to switch back to Linux for now—and I have to say, it’s been a much better experience than I remember. Touchpad gestures work smoothly, battery management has come a long way, and KDE Plasma 6.3 has been a pleasure to use overall.

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VoidDuck@reddit

I have quite a few PCs, but all of them are old. The newest one I own is from 2013 or 2014.

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i_live_in_sweden@reddit

One of my main machines on my desktop is a Fujitsu Esprimo Q900 from 2011 it's been upgraded from an HDD to an SSD and dubbled the RAM to 8 GB. Runs Arch Linux with 2 monitors, chugging along perfectly for my use case.

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Tekuzo@reddit

My gaming rig is one I built in 2015.

It has an i7 4790, 32gb of ram, and at the time I had a 970 in it but I recently upgraded to a 4070.

Been working great.

Daily driving Linux Mint.

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bigthe@reddit

My main PC is about 4 years old, but i also have a Thinkpad T61 from 2007 and some 10+ year old Asus 2in1 laptop.

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interrex41@reddit

My oldest is a pentium 4 with a gtx 5200 i think its running debian and a 1TB HD with 2 gigs of ram I only use it for storage though.

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callmenoodles2@reddit

About a month 👶

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Estebananojsjsjss@reddit

I have a Dell Latitude E7470 with an 6th gen Intel i5, 8gb of RAM and SSD, it's from 2016. I use Manjaro dual booted with windows just in case. I'm thinking of trying Arch out of curiosity, maybe I'll leave it as my main OS.

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Unknown_dimensoon@reddit

Sandy lake-e i7 user here with a Vega 56 gpu, linux keeps the machine running well and faster than a lot of newer Intel macs

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UnCommonSense99@reddit

In our house.... Ivy bridge i7 running win 10, will change to linux soon. AMD phenom II running linux already. 3 yo laptop running win 11

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sam_the_beagle@reddit

I have an old Lenovo T440s, 12 gb ram, and as SSD. Works fine with Mint.

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Sahiruchan@reddit

It's a dell something with i5 10310u 16gb ram

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Working_Narwhal_1067@reddit

I have three, all running some Linux version. All about 7 years old but with upgraded RAM. They run fine...

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Green_Fl4sh@reddit

Ryzen 9 7900x, rx 6700 xt, x670e plus, 32gb ram as main pc and gaming.

Macbook 11‘ 2013 for anywhere else. 95% ssh, a bit browsing (no video) and experimenting.

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Specialist-Fuel214@reddit

8

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SnillyWead@reddit

I bought my refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini in October 2021, so 4 years old. Running MX Linux Xfce as daily driver.

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mikechant@reddit

Main PC: 2013 Dell Optiplex 7010 MT, 16GB RAM, SSD upgrade, i7 CPU 4c8t
Backup PC: 2012 Dell Optiplex 7010 MT, 4GB RAM, SSD upgrade, i3 CPU 2c4t

Both running Kubuntu 24.04, 100% of hardware supported

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SubstanceLess3169@reddit

I got mine from my dad for free, UEFI setup says it was built 2018 so it's 7 years old. It's an MSI laptop with a dedicated NVIDIA GTX 1060 3gb and has an i7 something something. Not like rtx-powerful but powerful enough to play GTA 5 and Roblox n stuff. (oh dear I haven't played Roblox in a while). It also has 16gb ram and has a nearly 1tb HDD and a 256gb SSD (which is 238 gb for some reason, I hate that it's not precisely 256 GRRR). i data hoard so I love the HDD :)

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Harryisamazing@reddit

Mine is a 7 year old desktop running an i5-7400 with 16gb of RAM that I upgraded from 8gb with a 1060. It is all powered by Linux Mint

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KB19@reddit

PC: 10 years (i7-4790; 32GB RAM; AMD WX3200) Notebook(s): 11 years (i7-4xxxMQ; 16GB RAM)

But I'm still using 16-20 years old devices for some stuff. The only "newer" personal x86 device in my apartment is my homeserver 😅

Of course, everything powered by Linux. 😊

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Horror_Hippo_3438@reddit

My computer was bought in 1999. Since then I occasionally replace some of its parts. So my computer is 26 years old, but it is subject to Theseus' paradox.

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Rhaegg@reddit

My main desktop is a Ryzen 3600 and a Radeon 6800 XT. I have Nobara installed there, but thinkimg to switch to EndeavourOS.

In my older laptop (i7 6 thousand something ) I have Fedora KDE.

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Klapperatismus@reddit

From 2011. I don’t really notice its age.

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MrWerewolf0705@reddit

Currently running arch on the enigma machine personally

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kube1et@reddit

I got a Linux/Windows PC that's about 3 years old, with a 3070 Ti, etc. I mostly use it for games and not looking to upgrade any time soon. I do have plenty of old laptops at home, mostly from older jobs with routine replacements. I let my kids use them and they're all pretty ok, except the Dell XPS 13 which is probably going to die any day now.

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SaxoGrammaticus1970@reddit

Mine is a Dell Inspiron from 2019. Funny, because when I boot windows I get notifications from the Dell software about "recycling centers". Instead, I maxed the RAM and changed the secondary HDD for a better SSD and it's still going all well, running Linux like a breeze.

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gaijoan@reddit

Nice! I have a Precision 5550, so it's from 2020, and I expect to use it for many years to come...it's an i9 with a quadro 2000 gpu...

Bought it second hand two years ago, and got a great deal. I paid about $700, and I got the usb puck along with it, and it had the "complete care" service packet that expires in a week (it's actually away for service now, getting a new screen, touchpad and even a new charger)... first thing I did was also to max the ram and add another m.2

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guillermohs9@reddit

I have a 3583 with an 8th gen i7, 32 gigs of RAM and with a nvme runs Plasma really fast. I plan to have an AMD for my next laptop but my current one works really well. Before this I had a Lenovo with a 4th gen, used it for almost 10 years.

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bruisedandbroke@reddit

my 5577 runs XFCE super fast. shame about firmware blobs and intel ME though ...

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Zeznon@reddit

I have a 5566 from 2016 on a sata ssd and it runs great. The only thing I don't like about it is gaming performance (obviously)

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SaxoGrammaticus1970@reddit

Nice! I use the latest Plasma 6 and it's also blazingly fast.

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itrustpeople@reddit

4 years old, gaming PC

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123Its_me456@reddit

My old daily driver has a FX-6300, board and 8 GB DDR3 RAM from 2013, (dying) HDD from 2012 and GTX1050 Ti and PSU from 2017. In a case from 2006, which looks fairly used. But I stored it away, and might rebuild it in a new case and with a new SSD to have a spare PC in need.

I gradually replace parts every 5-7 years and rebuild PCs with older parts for spare or for selling them on or charity. So for now, I've built a budget Gaming/Workstation PC in the last 2 years (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 4060, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, new case, PSU). Linux runs on it like a charm, games and all I need for my usage (Office, streaming, VMs, some server and Python stuffs...) too.

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dashinyou69@reddit

Hp elitebook 8470p... 13yr old Intel i5 3rd Gen Mobile cpu With ddr3 ram 256gig ssd (I use manjaro gnome on it and it's works just fine and freah*)

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spyingwind@reddit

My desktop is about 4 years old on average. The newest parts are my GPU and AIO cooler for the CPU.

Laptops are a scam! Used to steal more money from you! /s

I do have a laptop, but it's more for diagnostic and vacation uses. I like being able to upgrade components over time.

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Spoofy_Gnosis@reddit

25 years old, keyboard missing keys, two SSDs out of three are broken, it heats up as soon as I wake it up like it's not possible, all the screen printing is erased, but I love this PC; it is sleeping in ssh and it is my test machine (suffering) praifairai 😁

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denis870@reddit

3 years old

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ofernandofilo@reddit

my uncle toshiba laptop:

Intel Pentium T2370  @ 1.73GHz (2008) (35W) [2C  2T] [  594 ST /   558 MT ]
3GB RAM, SSD, USB WiFi
MX Linux Fluxbox
17 years old

my father laptop: (it is not this cpu but it is from the same generation)

Intel Core i3-380M   @ 2.5 GHz (2010) (35W) [2C  4T] [ 1021 ST /  1208 MT ]
6GB RAM, SSD
Mint
15 years old

my family computer:

Intel Core i3-4160   @ 3.6 GHz (2014) (54W) [2C  4T] [ 1984 ST /  3512 MT ]
16GB RAM, SSD, USB Wifi
KDE neon
11 years old

my computer:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600     @ 4.4 GHz (2022) (65W) [6C 12T] [ 3257 ST / 21556 MT ]
32GB RAM, RX 6600 8GB, SSD, NVMe, waiting to arrive TP-Link TX50E Wi-Fi 6 AX3000 (Intel chipset)
Arch linux
3 years old

my uncle checks emails, YouTube and watches movies daily on his T2370. \^\^

_o/

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FunTowel6777@reddit

I have the same TP-Link adapter and it is perfect. I’d recommend getting an RP-SMA extender (one with a magnetic base - so you can either attach it to your pc case or put it on your desk).

I’m using it on a Windows PC though so your mileage may vary.

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ofernandofilo@reddit

wow, thank you very much. the board arrived today, I haven't installed it yet but I was thinking about it.

thank you very much!

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AymericDev@reddit

What's a family, everyone use Linux !

My family looks at me strangely when I speak about Linux lol

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ofernandofilo@reddit

I need to be able to solve all the problems myself.

maintaining computers for family and friends is a challenge.

but I like it and have fun with it.

in no case did I force the use of linux.

in every case when the machine had a Windows defect I suggested trying Linux with my promise that if they didn't like it I would install Windows again.

my mother bought a new laptop with Windows, she told me she wanted to continue using Linux... and as soon as the computer arrived, Linux was installed (KDE neon) and she has been using it for 1 and a half years. it's a Lenovo with AMD 5700U.

only my sister has a laptop with original Windows 8 and Office 2010, but she studies on the family computer and tells me she prefers OnlyOffice to MS Office 2010.

she never asked me to change the system on her laptop... I never offered.

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No-Advertising-9568@reddit

Your poor sister! The absolute worst Windows ever (yes, even worse than Vista).

I am on a Dell Optiplex GX745 SFF, RAM maxed to 8 gigs, two SSDs in place of the original HDD which amazingly still works (in storage now), add-in Silicon Image SATA/RAID controller, a Steelseries Apex keyboard, HP wireless mouse, XBOX 360 game controller, and MX Linux with KDE Plasma. Oh, and an antique ATI Radeon 1300/1550 GPU on the PCIE x16 slot. Adequate for my needs (creative writing, mp3 editing, DVD and CD rips). Would love to have newer hardware (USB 3) but no budget for that. Bluetooth 5 and WiFi on USB dongles; Gigabit Ethernet on a CAT6 cable I ran back from the router in the living room. Life is good enough! Technically dual boot: Batocera is on SDB. Retro games rock!

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FunTowel6777@reddit

Windows Vista Rocked! I loved using it, gave me very little problems even with an old CPU for the time

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ofernandofilo@reddit

oh, batocera is great =]

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foshow69@reddit

I have the T2370 too! What browser does he use. Does it stutter with video playback?

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ofernandofilo@reddit

Google Chrome and Firefox.

YouTube works normally without any problems.

video players: vlc and mpv.

I have friends who complain about video performance issues on laptops that aren't as old or as weak as the T2370 and on the MX Linux Fluxbox I've never had any issues.

I believe I didn't install it...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/

but I want to install armbian in graphical mode on a tvbox with 1GB of RAM and I intend to use these plugins to test.

_o/

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monochromaticflight@reddit

The Toshiba laptop, would this happen to be a Toshiba Satellite (Pro)? I had a Satellite A100 from 2007, T2060 CPU iirc (or 20xx at least). Pretty cool machine that did its job, but build quality not so great, thin plastic & shaky hinges and definitely not worth using it on the train.

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rof-dog@reddit

Not super old, but “outdated” by today’s gaming standards. It’s a bit of a frankenstein of hardware I’ve pulled over the years. Some Kioxia NVME drive I bought while in Japan because it was slightly cheaper. 32 GB of RAM and an 8th get Intel i5. Newest component in probably the NVME and my Radeon RX 6700 XT

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Mindless_Listen7622@reddit

Theseus's Paradox for me. I started building PCs for myself 30 years ago, replacing parts - gpu, cpu, mobo, power supply, case, hard drives. They weren't replaced all at once and sometimes when I'd acculated enough old parts, I'd build another PC from the replaced parts.

Paraphrasing Plutarch - is a PC, after having every single part replaced over time, still the same PC? At which point did the upgrade make it a totally different computer? And which?

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johncate73@reddit

When you change the motherboard, it's a new computer.

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Mindless_Listen7622@reddit

Why? It only marginally improves the performance of the machine. The data on the hard drive, its operating system and identity doesn't change. If you use Windows, Microsoft doesn't recognize it as a different computer requiring a new license.

Explain your reasoning, simply declaring something to be so doesn't make it so.

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johncate73@reddit

Just my opinion. You asked for an opinion in your last paragraph and I gave you one. If you want an argument, look elsewhere.

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sidusnare@reddit

If were going by oldest part, my keyboard is from 89

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TheGuyWithFace@reddit

Model M?

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MastusAR@reddit

If it is, same here. Model M, mfg 1989

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johncate73@reddit

I have a Model M from 1994 still in service. Still the best keyboard ever made.

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sidusnare@reddit

I have some of those, and like them, but I'm using a Northgate Omnikey 102 gold label.

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Undergrid@reddit

It's a new PC whenever you have to replace the motherboard and RAM when upgrading the CPU (IMO)

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Mindless_Listen7622@reddit

Yet the operating system and all the the data on the storage device are the same? It definitely will run faster, but the experience doesn't really change.

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Undergrid@reddit

You didn't mention experience, you only wondered when it would be considered a new computer. Realistically, even if you started with a fresh windows install on all new hardware, the experience between that and an old PC is also going to be similar but faster (assuming the same windows version)

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xebecv@reddit

I think the key part, that distinguishes this PC from another one is your motherboard. Once you replace your motherboard, it's a new PC

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vishal340@reddit

Very very old keyboards did have the ALT key. I know this because vim doesn't have ALT keybinding(also I have seen the keyboard the creator of VI used).

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omniuni@reddit

This exactly. Even my very recently built PC still has the same 512 GB SATA SSDs I bought in 2017.

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gliliumho@reddit

Does PSU count? I still have same PSU from 2013 and 128GB SSD from 2013/14.

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johncate73@reddit

Not quite that old, but my daily driver is an HP ProBook 4540s first released sometime late in 2012.

What makes it still viable in 2025 is that quite a few components have been upgraded over the years, even to stuff that HP never supported in this model. I upgraded the display from 768p to 900p by swapping in the LVDS cable from a higher-end model, swapped the CPU from an i5-3210m (2c/4t) to an i7-3720qm (4c/8t), the RAM from 4GB to 16GB, a 512GB SSD boot drive, and a beastly 4TB HDD in the optical bay (15mm, but I was just able to make it fit).

This model supported Linux when new (OpenSUSE was a factory option), and now runs modern PCLinuxOS like it was made for it. The Ivy Bridge mobile i7 is still quite snappy with Linux, especially with 16 gigs and RAM on a non-systemd distro.

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rire0001@reddit

hmm... no, just because Linux can run fine on outdated stuff that Micro$oft won't support doesn't mean I'm not getting the good stuff. The last one I got as my desktop was this past spring, when the Trump Tirade War began (my excuse). i9, GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, 32GB DDR4, runs Fedora 41. I donate my old gear.

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batuckan1@reddit

I gave my dell inspiron intel 1.8 to my brother but it ran Ubuntu, Linux mint, fedora before reinstalling windows 7

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AmSoDoneWithThisShit@reddit

Ancient.....in a "my father's axe" sort of way...

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PcChip@reddit

I'm still running an old delidded watercooled 12900k, with an RTX4090

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TrueTzimisce@reddit

Spare laptop (which I'm currently stuck on due to main one's battery shitting the bed) is a linux box. Surprisingly new, but was e-waste out the factory door. Uncomfortable keyboard, mediocre CPU, four gigs of RAM, and an HDD (surprisingly good one, though. Would use it for storage if I didn't nuke the damn thing every few months in a fruitless search for extra performance)

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solwolfgaming@reddit

I built it this year. Parts are a couple years old though. I just use Linux because I like it.

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vida_caos@reddit

Ryzen 5600x + NVIDIA RTX 3060ti

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Any_Manufacturer_463@reddit

I use a dell inspiron from 2019 with Debian. Works fine and I have no intention of buying a new laptop until this one breaks.

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thomascameron@reddit

I just rebuilt my computer with a AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor, 64GB memory, AMD 9070 XT video card, and two Samsung 990 PRO SSD 1TB drives. So it's only a few weeks old. Prior to that, my system was about 5 years old.

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NotADev228@reddit

My main computer is 1-2 years old (Rtx 4070 and intel core i7 13gen) but I also have thinkpad T480(from 2018)

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iLikeDickColon3@reddit

built one 6 months ago with my dad

before that, I had a 2 yo laptop from system76

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maceion@reddit

Laptop, Dell; built 2013, bought , software installed etc. 2014. Still well used (8 hours or so per day) using a Linux Distribution.

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ravigehlot@reddit

About 10 years now.

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New-Refrigerator6583@reddit

My toshiba satellite is 15 years old but I think its better than my other laptop(lenovo yoga 2 pro)

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Real_Shebnik@reddit

I have desktop with phenom 945 II, but it started glitching recently, have to replace power supply again.
By wife uses old Lenovo X200, bouth second hand in 2013. Still works fine.

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InfLife@reddit

ThinkPad x61s from 2007 as my laptop (mainly uni) and a desktop pc from around 2016? Gtx 1070 and i5 6600k

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Practical_Extreme_47@reddit

I use laptops until they die! Currently I am using a T430 and X220 - my X220 still has an HDD!

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Plenty_Passenger_968@reddit

I bought an Asus MB with a then blazing fast I7 2600k and 16GB of Ram in 2010. Still using it. It has Linux that entire time.

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Bahgat2tr@reddit

4 years

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JerryRiceOfOhio2@reddit

i built my desktop 8 years ago for $300, definitely 2 gens old stuff back then. i run the latest Linux mint on it, runs great.

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SmallMongoose5727@reddit

My laptop is 2025 and has half battery life of the 2024 HP 14 ep2xxxx

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Fuffy_Katja@reddit

My field laptop is a ThinkPad T440S with 12 GB RAM. I have no idea when that model was released as I bought it used off Marketplace. My 2008 MacPro 3,1 (48 GB RAM) has a Linux drive installed along with the OSX drive.

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teebee@reddit

My main PC is a Chromebook. But I have a massive backend of Server gear but all current'ish Cisco B200M5 probably Circa 2020. I still keep around a P3 something or other if I need old hardware or interfaces that I can't do in a VM

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euclide2975@reddit

Motherboard and cpu 2021. GPU 2024. Storage all over the place : 4 sata ssd and 1 nvme bought between 2016 and 2025 and an optical drive from 2010. Until recently I had a pair of sata HDD that were left over after an upgrade campaign at my previous job ( laptops that got a ssd at mid life and the IT guy let me get 2 of them)

Displays : 2020 to 2024. Replacement for panels dating back to 2006 (one of those is still alive and in a closet. The other died.

Next upgrade will depend of requirements for the Witcher 4 I think. But in practice my pc is Theseus’ ship

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Walzmyn@reddit

My cadre run from 10 to 2 years old. Some bought used. The 2 year old is my Thinkpad, bought new at near max specs.

And of course, my phone is brand new 😉

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photo-nerd-3141@reddit

Have a quad-CPU opteron that was recently replaced with an Epyc... call it 20 years.

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Keely369@reddit

6 months.

Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-23-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 61.9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

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johnmacbromley@reddit

Is KDE still crashy?

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CounterUpper9834@reddit

I still use an HDD from 2012 and have been running for 8 years.

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johnmacbromley@reddit

‘Tinycore’ looks like the best Linux flavour for really old hardware, the footprint is minimal. The interface is a bit clunky and most tweaks need to done via a command line.

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nuclearpancake1423@reddit

2014.

Still need to install linux on it tho

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hjisto-08@reddit

Intel core 2 duo e8400 3.0ghz 6gb ddr3 ram Hdd Intel r q45/43 chipest with 128mb vram.

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korphd@reddit

Finally found one worser than mine, jesus 😭😭😭

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AmySorawo@reddit

I think the oldest thing in my build is the GPU, GTX 1060, 2016

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Gipetto@reddit

About 6 years old. Custom built in 2019

Ryzen 3800X (originally 2700X) Nvidia 2070 Super (originally AMD RX580) 64GB Ram (originally 32GB) 512GB Boot Nvme 2TB Data Nvme

It is a fantastic web development machine. There’s a ton of docker containers that I don’t bother shutting down when switching between projects. I don’t have to worry about resource consumption. I can still play modern games at reasonable settings. The 2070 is good at transcoding, though has been replaced by a dedicated media PC. The 2070 is crap for AI, my M1 MacBook puts it to shame.

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Bardox30@reddit

16 years.

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techofmanythings@reddit

I have a 10-12 year old thinkpad X1 Carbon I use for my kid as well as occasionally a spare. While not super fast it still works for most lightweight tasks. It’s honestly still usable thanks to Linux.

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MightPrestigious5064@reddit

I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed. It's 14 years old, I think. An Acer Aspire 5750G with an Intel Core i5 2410M, a Nvidia GeForce GT 540M and 4 gigs of RAM. It's not my daily driver, though.

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Random_Dude_ke@reddit

Up until last year I ran notebook from 2012. It was the only computer I ever purchased new. It was purchased during the business trip to USA during Black Friday.

Recent computer - I purchased a refurbished workstation. Older Intel Xeon, 6 core, 12 threads, Nvidia graphics card that was a decent card for 3D modelling 8 years ago, 64GB RAM. Best bang for the buck.

Older computers were either second-hand or assembled using salvaged parts, or a combination ;-)

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VzOQzdzfkb@reddit

Mine was made in 2009 and has 6 ram slots. Almost all the ram sticks i put there are 8GB cuz i use /dev/shm/ alot and the folder saved me from overcrowding my disk with downloaded garbage i would forget to delete and forget what it was for so i would keep the garbage. To me this pc is a beast and i could use it for another decade.

I use Debian and XFCE btw.

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gazpitchy@reddit

About three weeks, I just build a nice 9800X3D rig.

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Typeonetwork@reddit

One is a 2009 64bit Linux machine with 2GiB ram. My linux laptop is 32bit Linux machine, but I don't use it. Both have the same OS on it. I assume the laptop has more ram, but I tried installing something other than xfce on it. It was a bad experience, LOL.

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alrat@reddit

I am still using my laptop from 2016. Asus N552VW. Has been a hassle in the beginning with scaling for 4k. But that is almost no existent no longer. Still ok i7 cpu and 32gig ram. The graphics start to struggle and I need to always use external 960m gpu with also start to struggle on certain contents.

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Intelligent_Hat_5914@reddit

I have two laptops

One is 7 years old and other is 5

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ryoko227@reddit

My first true Linux PC is my N7010 Dell Inspiron from Walmart. Picked it up in 2010. Used Windows on it till Win7 EOS, and Win10 had issues detecting my headphones and some of the function keys. Slapped Mint in it and it's been bulletproof ever since. The problem is now, the plastic bezel cracked, because the display frame snapped off the hinge on one side.

I now have Elitebook Dragonfly's running Arch for me and the wife. Have also been replacing the house 3 in 1 PC's VMs with Arch. I won't use Win11, and turns out, my 1920x TR isn't allowed by MS anyway (even after trying the server mode install). No better time to de-Windows the home!

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MatchingTurret@reddit

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP EliteBook 850 G1
System Version: A3009DD10303

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kapijawastaken@reddit

thats one massive cpu upgrade

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MatchingTurret@reddit

Bought in 2021. I'm eyeing a Medusa Halo machine next year, if the leaks turn out to bet true.

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Bright_Crazy1015@reddit

384 bit bus? That'd be a massive upgrade.

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kapijawastaken@reddit

sounds expensive

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Guggel74@reddit

Workstation HP Z440, 32 GB RAM. CPU: 6-core Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 1197/1200/3800 MHz

Purchased in 2019, real age unknown as a refurbished device.

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Bright_Crazy1015@reddit

I bet that boat draws some power.

You ever overclock it?

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FlashOfAction@reddit

Like 13 years old lmao

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_mohitpratap@reddit

15 years old i3 3rd gen and 6gb ram with hdd.. I'm 18

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GreyXor@reddit

framework 13 AI 300 Ryzen 9.

April 2025

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Obnomus@reddit

Tell me your experience on Linux and specially battery life.

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GreyXor@reddit

My experience is very good. and improves with the new versions of Linux. I would say that you need at least 6.15 (and here I am on the Linux trunk) to have the latest Strix Point features and battery optimization. So support is coming slowly but surely. The performance is excellent for the format. This Ryzen 9 chip has a lot of capacity, whether it is to run heavy games (I play Stalker 2 on average). In idle from 100% to 0% screen on and in energy saving I have 15h (doing nothing with the computer) it drops to 11h/10h if I launch a movie with mpv and vaapi decoding (in dmabuf-wayland) my graphic environment is minimalist too. I am under sway. If I use the computer's power at 100%, I get down to 3 hours. (but that's a lot of power)

My negative point is not related to framework: there are as yet no applications that can support amd XDNA (for local inference and AI). But support will arrive in Ryzen AI 1.5. The driver is already here and working good, we just miss some app that use it.

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Obnomus@reddit

I think you're having a nice experience btw Ryzenadj is this a new tool or something? I'm hearing about it first time. Since I'm planning to buy Framework 13 Laptop, how's that 2.8k 120hz display looks, I heard it doesn't have the best color gaumet.

Btw bro check this out.

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GreyXor@reddit

i like the display, smooth, bright and can be very low too. that's very good at night

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Obnomus@reddit

Wait what js notebookcheck profile, I heard it for the first time.

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GreyXor@reddit

https://gitlab.com/greyxor/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.color/icc/BOE0CB4.icm

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Kassebasse@reddit (OP)

I have always wanted a framework laptop, however, there are quite expensive, and I have to save up in order to afford it. For the meanwhile, I am just fine with what I have, I can even swap the CPU out of this thing if I wanted to!

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petrified_log@reddit

My oldest machine running Linux is an HP Dev One laptop. It has a Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U processor. I think I put 32GB Ram in it when I got it so that it would be good for a long time. I did take PopOS off and put Universal Blue Aurora on it. On a side note, I've been debating whether or not to switch it to Project Bluefin instead.

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Bright_Crazy1015@reddit

2011 27" iMac is the oldest one I currently still use. It had 4GB RAM for quite a while and worked fine for browsing the web on MacOS, but it was borrowing virtual memory at times I'm sure. I upgraded to 16GB and tossed Mint on it when Apple abandoned it re security updates.

The GPU crashes every now and then, but that's to be expected. I just restart from the blank screen. Streamio crashes maybe once or twice a week.

If a new program is going to have problems with the GPU being too weak or old, it generally has them right away.

The screen/speakers are great, so I don't want to just toss it, even though it is an older device. It draws too much power to be my network access, I use a Beelink S12 for that.

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AdventurousChest7444@reddit

I upgrade gradually. The oldest part is the PC case, 22 years old, the newest part is the optical drive, 5 years old. Motherboard, CPU, graphics card are 8 years old.

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RedHeadSteve@reddit

Got a replacement for my 2017 laptop cause the screen failed and the screen had more value in it than the rest of the laptop combined

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kalzEOS@reddit

I bought my laptop back in 1776. A day after independence. Man, those were the days.

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MrShortCircuitMan@reddit

i3 first generation. 4B Ram . Windows 7

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simsin_dev@reddit

i have an 8 year old pc, with 7th gen i7 and gtx 1060, im upgrading this year and windows is not making it onto the new pc

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deep_chungus@reddit

my main pc is pretty beefy as i game on it, less than 2 years old

my laptop is an old Lenovo ThinkPad 11e (5th Gen) (20LR) (4 gig memory version) - i got it for free it works ridiculously well with a basic arch install and gnome (screen sucks tho) plus the battery lasts forever, but i'm thinking of upgrading to a 6th gen yoga so i can get a touch screen (made a bit of extra cash, can probably afford the $120 aud)

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Aggressive-Spend9240@reddit

11 years. But the parts are 13 years old.

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a_mandrill@reddit

2018 thinkpad, but it has been linux since it was new.

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therealruderpaule@reddit

Lenovo Legion from 2018 with GTX 1060. I hated win11 so I decided to go for mint

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ang-p@reddit

Thousands of years old..... It is just pulverised rocks that we have tricked into thinking.

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tjddbwls@reddit

Trying to be Windows-free again at the house. My desktop isn’t that old, though - it’s a Dell Precision 3240 Compact that I bought in 2021. •\ Intel Xeon W-1270\ •\ 32GB RAM\ •\ 256GB + 4TB NVME SSDs\ •\ RHEL 10

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My-Prostate-Is-Okay@reddit

16 year old gateway tower baby. Upped her to 28 gigs DDR3 a GeForce 2060 super (got it double digits figured why not till I get a new build, then keep it as a spare lol) i7 first gen and a 1tb ssd.

It's a monstrosity of "should be dead" and "older but good tech" and I LOVE it. Was actually thinking of switching it out to modern but with the old FC gateway tower still just for shits and gigs since it's a meme machine back in the day

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EtiamTinciduntNullam@reddit

What is your RAM configuration? It might be running in single-channel while it could run in dual-channel effectively doubling your RAM speed.

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gr33fur@reddit

Basically late AM4 for my main PC with another PC being an early AM4 system. Oldest component is the DVD drive. Had an older laptop but the unplanned, and definitely unwanted, forced upgrade of UEFI and OS crippled it.

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TheThingOnTheCeiling@reddit

Well I got GTX 1050 Ti which is like 9 years old I think. Motherboard no idea, but it still uses PCIe 2.0 so pretty old, dont remember cpu either but propably around the same age.

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ExtraTNT@reddit

So, had a 10y old notebook, but upgraded… other hardware is just upgraded all the time… so yeah, there was a hdd from 2008 once in the build and a cable from 1995… but cpu is from 2024

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BIRD_II@reddit

About 7 months - Mostly new build, except that all drive storage was reused.

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seiha011@reddit

Shuttle K45 Intel Dual core 2mb RAM. Good for the workshop and as a computer for tinkering/programming e.g. Arduino. But Not for surfing.... 😎

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Kassebasse@reddit (OP)

If you mean 2 mb of ram... I would be surprised if Linux ran on that... But I know you mean 2 GB :)

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seiha011@reddit

Uhh yes... you are right 2GB RAM. 😎

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Ok-Current-3405@reddit

My oldest pc running Linux daily is a core i7-870, first génération. My daily is a core i7-8086k, not the latest either. I still have third and fourth générations in reserve or for testing purpose

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inn0cent-bystander@reddit

Technically, what feels like eons ago I started with an athlonxp chip, and cheap case. then upgraded a piece at a time. Nothing still exists from that original machine, but at any change some piece remained from the previous configuration so it's the same machine.

Which makes it just over 20 years old.

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litreofstarlight@reddit

Laptop is about three years old. My old PC (in the process of building a new one) was from 2012.

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AnomalyNexus@reddit

Bought just ahead of the great COVID GPU drought so 2020. Did a refresh to 5800x3D and 3090 last year. Seems to have a fair bit of life left so will try to skip ahead to a zen 6 build and then turn the desktop into a NAS.

If it wasn't for gaming I could probably keep it for a billion years. Normal desktop use just doesn't need even a 5800/3090

Travel laptop - some ancient zenbook that literally can't run windows.

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LaneaLucy@reddit

Thinkpad t430 and hpe proliant ml350 g6....

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The_Deadly_Tikka@reddit

I upgraded my PC about a year ago after having the previous one for 7 years.

7900X3D 7900XTX 32GB 6000mhz 4TB NVME SSD

Previously had 8700K 1080Ti 32GB 3200mhz 1TB NVME SSD

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smeech1@reddit

My daily driver is a 12 year-old ex-office Optiplex 7010 SFF, upgraded to SSD, and RAM in two steps to 24GB.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 (4) @ 3.40 GHz
Mint 21.2 Xfce.

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Hot-Switch1995@reddit

dell XPS 9530 from 2013. so 12 years.
Replaced the battery, replaced the keyboard twice and replaced the top shell around the keyboard because the plastic rubber coating turned to goop.
Great laptop, great keybaord, great screen. really happy with it. its more than enough for a browser and IDE. No need to upgrade. I dont play games, probably keep this for another 10 years. linux mint.

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WillVssn@reddit

I have a Mac Mini from 2012 still running. Kali Linux on that one with the thought of having an Intel based machine available if I ever need to do something that just doesn’t work too well on my ARM M4 MacBook with virtual Kali. Then there is my 2015 MacBook Pro occupying space on my desk for which I’m considering whether to replace the battery (I have it laying around) and installing some Linux distribution on it, OR take out the new SSD that’s installed and put that in my Dell Latitude 7490 (2019) to use a bit more regular.

In the desktop pc side of things I have my 2017 (self assembled) machine running Ubuntu 24.04LTS (I think) running some Docker containers and my 2023 (als self assembled) machine is waiting to get used for test lab purposes. It’s configured with Proxmox and that’s about it.

Alongside all of this some Raspberry Pi’s are running in the network. Nothing fancy, just present and available.

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jerdle_reddit@reddit

My main laptop's a couple of years old (HP ZBook Firefly 14 G10 A, 7840HS, 32/512), but my server laptop's a good bit older.

I'm not entirely sure which parts to go by for age, because it's a bit of a Frankenstein, but the CPU is an 8250U.

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goalump@reddit

Mate I'm running Mint on a 2012 11" Macbook Air and it runs better than it did on MacOS in 2012! I've also got it running on a Lenovo ThinkCentre All-In-One PC. Don't know how old that one is, I got it given to me for free cos my old work thought it was 'broken'. Plot twist - it was not :) It's a Core i5-3470S CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4 and it runs fine. I did swap the HDD out for an SSD but apart from that it's all original.

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octahexxer@reddit

All my stuff is old runs linux just fine

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Raphi_55@reddit

Main PC : 5700X3D (originally 3900X), RTX3080, NVMe SSDs so around 2020/2021

Laptop : Dell E5420, i5 2nd gen, SSD (upgrade from the OG HDD) from 2013. The battery is cooked tho

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spaceman_@reddit

I've got a whole rut of computers, most of them were upcycled e-waste or corporate end of lease stuff I bought used.

That said, the oldest hardware I have left in use is an i7-7700k now. I've took a bunch of older (3th-4th-5th gen Intel core i) hardware out of use in the early days of the war in Ukraine when power became expensive.

My main desktop is an Engineering Sample i7-11800H, 64GB and an Nvidia 1080Ti.

My main laptop is actually brand new, a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 64GB of memory.

The rest are cobbled together home servers.

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nlogax1973@reddit

Mine is from 2012. An old Lenovo, but with 16 GB RAM, and SSD (SATA only though)

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nadmaximus@reddit

I regularly use an Asus EEEpc with Debian 12 on it...so, 17-18 years old at this piont. Mostly I use the framebuffer console for ssh, but XFCE is available and usable. Besides some limitations of 32-bit (some specific software is unavailable), the main annoyance is the screen resolution which is 1024x600. Some of the apps in X have windows which are simply larger than the screen. However, when necessary I can scale the display so that I can access the app window. This is usually when I need to configure something in XFCE preferences.

I put a cheap SSD in it a few years ago, and it made a tremendous difference. As long as Debian supports 32-bit, it will continue to be a contemporary, useful computer. After that, it will just be a retro legacy.

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foshow69@reddit

Inspiron 1525, Pentium T2370, 2.4GB RAM, 512GB HDD running MX Linux with XFCE

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gringogr1nge@reddit

Still running an Intel i7 CPU 950 3.07GHz, 8 cores. It was my old Windows 7/10 PC but I'm now using it as a Plex server. Moved the motherboard to a Chenbro case and racked it in my garage. Works fine running Ubuntu server. As long as I do the big transcoding offline. No video card needed.

I will replace it with my current i9990K system one day when I can be bothered upgrading.

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Effective-Evening651@reddit

Main workstation/desktop replacement - ThinkPad w541 - 2014

Ultrabook - for when i need to be portable - Thinkpad T25 - 2017.

I bought the W series as a secondhand machine - initially to be my Windows work rig back in 2022. The job that justified this machine is long gone, and thanks to some financial difficulties as of late, what was a spare work computer originally has become my primary workstation laptop. 4th gen Intel is no longer officially win11 supported, so the W541 runs Debian - as does my ultrabook. Until a few months ago, I did maintain a winodws install on the spare drive on the W541, mostly for GTAV, but "Enhanced edition" of the 10+ year old game now won't run on my 10 + year old quadro GPU. So, no more justification for Windows.

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mmmorast@reddit

Still using an ThinkPad X230 runninf Fedora 42 as a daily driver. Great laptop. But I recently ordered a T14 as a replacement cause I would like to use thunderbolt

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acewing905@reddit

The last time I put together something that can be called a whole "new PC" was in 2010. (Even then I reused my previous case)

Since then I've been swapping out parts as necessary. Currently my mobo and CPU are from 2022, RAM is from 2021, PSU is from 2023, and graphics card is from last month. Disk drives vary from over ten years ago to last year

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Cesar_PT@reddit

it's a build from 2019

it's got a ryzen 5 3600; 16gb ram; rx 580 8gb and a nvme ssd

still quite happy with it and i don't intend to upgrade it anytime soon

adding to the fact that i find less and less joy in gaming, there's even less incentive for upgrading, as this machine will still be perfectly suitable for normal usage for a long time

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IsItJake@reddit

9

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redhawk1975@reddit

i run on intel haswell its 11 yr old

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reddanit@reddit

My PCs have been in ship of Theseus situation since forever - I got my first PC just over 25 years ago and the legacy kinda stretches all the way there. Currently I have:

Main PC: Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Radeon RX 9070 and Samsung 990 Pro SSD - whose motherboard, half of the RAM, case and PSU are all from 2016.
Recently acquired used laptop - Lattitude 5320 2-in-1 with i7-1185G7, new to me but generally it's from 2021. Though it got the 2019 SSD previously serving in my main PC (Adata XPG SX8200 Pro before any downgrades). I'm also thinking of getting a fresh battery for it.
My old laptop - Latitude e6230 with i5-3320M which is from 2012 that was ~5 years old when I got it. It still works so I have some minor qualms about throwing it out to e-waste bin, but it's definitely old enough to be retired.
Parts bin PC that I have at my parents home. It's i5-4440 from 2014, but with more recent GPU (currently Radeon R9 380X, waiting to be replaced with RX 6600). It also has an SSD and wild assortment of HDDs who knows how old. Its PSU and case are also from 2011.

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Kronod1le@reddit

My spare laptop has an i5 2540m and 6GB ram

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Coammanderdata@reddit

I don't really know to be honest. Not new though

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Upstairs-Comb1631@reddit

Just recently, I was running Linux on an Intel Centrino mobile Pentium III processor. It was quite snappy, to my surprise.

About 2 years ago, I retired a Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz.

I am still operating KDE4 on an AMD from around 2010 with integrated graphics and it has 2GB of RAM.

The computer I am writing to you from is from 2012. The processor is a year newer. The GPU is from 2016. It got a new power supply.

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Low-Alternative-6604@reddit

Idem per il mio PC che è un Lenovo 10AH-S3EF00 del 2008, gli ho cambiato CPU i5 , 32gb RAM e 1tb SSD, aggiungendo una scheda video da 2gb e una multiporta USB pci 3.0. ad oggi va bene, ma se devo editare un video...soffre!

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StergeZ@reddit

1998 laptop here.

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archontwo@reddit

I still rock couple of HP MicroServer N36. So about 15 years old at this point.

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GurgleBlaster68@reddit

Daily driver is 9 years old Asus ROG GL552JX, and spare computer is 13 years old Dell Latitude 6420. Both are heavily upgraded.

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NikoOhneC@reddit

Laptop is from last year, because I wanted ddr5 ram, otherwise i would have bought a used one.

Desktop is mixed, the oldest parts should be 8 years old, ne newest is a ryzen 5 7600 (+MB and RAM)

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monochromaticflight@reddit

Typing this from a Asus K73TK laptop 13 years old, just took it over from someone because they went with a W11 laptop. Pretty cheap & slowish and not great for active, but I plan to do some distrohopping and try some tiling window managers.

This particular machine has dual graphics set-up which has always given issues on Windows 10 and only seemed to work with W8, and wasn't picked up 2 different Linux OS's which is the oddest experience. Suspecting some hardware failure, at least integrated graphics works okay.

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DonaldMerwinElbert@reddit

I've been building my own PCs for 20 years, the wife's for as long as I had her ;)
6 years for major replacement, hers is due soon (from 2019)

EndeavourOS, KDE Plasma 6
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Radeon RX 6650XT
16GB RAM
2TB Gen4 m.2 NVMe
1TB Gen3 m.2 NVMe
4TB 7200RPM spinning rust
1x 2560x1440 165Hz HDR, 1x 1920x1080 75Hz Monitors

Mine is at the half way point (built 2022)

Arch Linux, KDE Plasma 6
AMD Ryzen 7 7700
AMD Radeon 6950XT
32GB RAM
2x 2TB Gen4 m.2 NVMe
4TB 7200RPM, 6TB 5400RPM spinning rust
1x 2560x1440 165Hz HDR, 1x 1920x1080 75Hz Monitors

She'll get a new personal Laptop soon (also from 2019 - Ryzen 2500U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD), at which point I'll keep using it to replace mine (2011 MBP Intel i7 2760QM, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD), since I mostly use it to interface with hardware I don't fully trust (Aliexpress microcontrollers and the like).

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Biokendry@reddit

I bought my mini computer for 120$ i5-7500t, 8 ram and 256 SSD and I only play old games on it (mostly childhood games I used to play in the cyber lmao) I'm using Linux Mint. No problems, I love it.

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Biokendry@reddit

I was using a dual core e5800 the last year on Linux Mint too, no problems either.

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Or0ch1m4ruh@reddit

My daily driver is a 10 yo Dell Latitude laptop - i7, 8G RAM

It's running CachyOS with Gnome.

Works great from email, and other personal stuff.

Retro-gaming only: MAME, NDS, GBA, C64

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GjMan78@reddit

Io utilizzo un MacBook Pro mid 2012

Intel Core i5-3200 16 GB RAM, 2x512 GB SSD

EndeavourOS Kde

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DistributionRight261@reddit

May be 7-8 years, it's a 9700k 16gb ram 1070ti tower and my laptop 6 years Ryzen 2700u 32 gb ram.

Both have received upgrades on the road.

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SuAlfons@reddit

Jan 2021 for my desktop (Ryzen 3600x, rx6750xt, B450 chipset, 32GB)

Aug 22 my son's Ryzen 5600, nv 3060TI, B550,

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Geezheeztall@reddit

All my older hardware has Mint installed.

My travel laptop is a 2011 Lenovo E520 with an i5 2540m, 8 gigs of ram and a 512gig ssd.

My home server is an AMD FX8320 with 32 gigs of ram, 1030gt, OS on an ssd, and two hdd.

I have a functional mothballed 2005 IBM Intellistation M Pro P4 3.4Ghz w/HT and 2 gigs of ram, 9500gt, OS on an ssd and supplemental hdd storage. It’s not fast but usable for browsing and basic tasks.

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aghasee@reddit

Hp Compaq dc7900 sff, Intel Core2 quad Q8300, 4GB RAM, bought it 2nd hand in 2014 so the h/w probably dates back to 2010 or 2011. Currently running Devuan daedalus with KDE 5xxx DE

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f-ranke@reddit

Thinkpad about 10 years old and MacBook Air also that age and steamdeck oled .5 years old

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michelbarnich@reddit

Self built in 2016, since then literally every component has been swapped. Its mow a 3900XT and an 6750XT GPU. 32GB of RAM and a ton of storage in HDDs and some in SSDs.

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Royal-Chapter-6806@reddit

My laptop just turned 10 yo. With Linux, you just update os and it never turns old. I plan on switching to Mac just to try another spin on my computer usage. I'll have my old laptop with Linux, still, until it just dies. Linux makes it basically forever young, though.

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Jumpy_Strawberry_237@reddit

I have a PC with first generation of AMD Athlon x64 with 2 GB RAM. It runs very good with Fedora 45 on it. On windows 7 not so good.

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lastPixelDigital@reddit

For work I have been running a ThinkPad running Ubuntu 25.04 from 2015, has a i5 Processor (5200u or 5300u, I forget), 24 GB ram, 1 TB mx crucial ssd . Had a Samsung 1 TB Evo 870 ssd before. Started using it on Ubuntu 23.04

Running larger projects with Docker can be a little slower sometimes. Overall it has been good.

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green_fish1@reddit

my desktop is a Dell Precision tower 3620 which is \~7 years old

my laptop is a Thinpad T14 gen1 with an intel chip, it's about 5 years old now.

both work wonderfully btw, both use an SSD and the only draw back is with the Dell as it uses a Nvidia Quadro M4000 which means I have to download nvidia's stupid driver for my desktop.

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Cloudup365@reddit

I use an old pre build with a ryzen 5 3400g and 16gb ram. I mean the cpu isn't like the oldest but you know

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navetBruce@reddit

I just installed LMDE on my wife's Toshiba Satellite which sports a Turion 64.

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johnzzon@reddit

I have a Dell XPS from 2021 I think. And my desktop PC which I use the most has parts from many years. Last big update was 2020, but new GPU 2022 maybe. Still going strong.

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SeriousPlankton2000@reddit

03/06/09
(BIOS version date)

model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

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Sea_Locksmith9334@reddit

I had 2 core ANTHLON back in the day. 2 extra cores can be unlocked giving you performance boost in some applications. Just a good memory of old AMDs.

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Sea_Locksmith9334@reddit

Running Mint on T14 Gen 1 AMD from 2020.

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LeonAutonomo@reddit

My current pc is an AMD-A10 from 2015 which I have installed Linux because it is no longer valid for Windows11.

It works perfectly with Linux so I have not had to throw the pc in the trash because of Windows.

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hwoodice@reddit

I built it in 2014. It run only Linux since then.

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postmortemstardom@reddit

The oldest I have is a desktop from 2005-06. Pentium 4, geforce8800 or something like that for gpu and 40 gigs HDD with IDE port.

Shit is still running :D

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SonomaBit@reddit

My PC is about 8 years old. It consists of:

Ryzen 5 1600
GTX 1060 6 GB
16 GB RAM

It still serves me well enough for most tasks to be honest

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Tempus_Nemini@reddit

iMac 14,3 from 2013. Just replaced HDD to SSD.

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PrerakNepali@reddit

Around 20 yrs

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N1nr0d@reddit

i7 14700k, 1tb nvme + 1tb nvme + 512tbm nvme, 32gb ram DDR5, RX 7800XT, 850w psu.

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xylarr@reddit

My PC of Theseus?

I think the one I have started around 2006 with an Intel Core 2 Duo.

It's now on its third or fourth motherboard. It has had at least two CPUs per motherboard. I've lost count of the graphics cards. I've been Intel and AMD for CPU, nVidia and AMD for CPU.

The oldest thing until recently was the case and power supply.

It's been through in place upgrades from Windows Vista, 7, 10, 11 - yes upgrades, no fresh installs - yes I'm mad.

There are files on the non-OS drives that are dated back to then.

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xylarr@reddit

Oooo, I found the original order in my email. It was 2007.

1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU, 3.0 GHz, FSB 1333MHz, 4MB L2 Cache, Socket LGA775 (E6850) = AU$345.00
1 x ASUS P5K-Deluxe WiFi M/board - P35, 1333MHz FSB, Dual Channel DDR2-1066, PCI Ex16, SATAII RAID, Dual Gigabit LAN and Wireless, 8-Ch Audio, ATX (P5K-DLX-WiFi) = AU$322.00
1 x Antec 'SOLO' ATX MiniTower - BLACK/SILVER, NO PSU, Piano Black Finishing, Drive Bays: 4x5.25" Ext, 4x3.5" Int, front USB/Firewire/Audio In & Out (solo) = AU$135.19
1 x 32-bit MS Windows Vista Home Premium 1-Pack OEM DVD Operating System (66I-00715) = AU$144.91
1 x Inno3D GF 8800GTS Overclocked 640MB 320-bit DDR3, Dual DVI, HDTV, PCI Express X16 interface, Fan, 570MHz Core Clock, 1800MHz Memory Clock (IV-8800GTS-OC) = AU$495.00
1 x SATA!!! Samsung SH-S183A Black Internal DOUBLE Layer 18x DVD±RW Drive, 12x DVD-RAM, 8x ±R DL, OEM with software included (SH-S183A-BL) = AU$51.49
1 x Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB (2x XMS2 1GB) PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM, 2x240-pin DIMMs, Non ECC Unbuffered, 4-4-4-12 (TWIN2X2048-6400c4) = AU$198.99
1 x WESTERNDIGITAL WD740ADFD 74GB 16M 10,000RPM RAPTOR X (HDDWDD07416S) = AU$205.00
1 x tas620W "Corsair" HX-620 ATX Power Supply, 120mm fan, Dual PCI-E Graphics Card Connector, 8 SATA Connectors, Universal AC input 90~264V (CMPSU-620HX) = AU$170.00

Back then, no SSD, instead got a 10,000 RPM main drive.

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RamesesThe2nd@reddit

9 years old. i7, 64 GB RAM and NVMe drive. I just upgraded my 1060 to 3060 GPU. It's a desktop PC.

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Select-Ad-7471@reddit

Intel atom 🥲

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Advanced-Issue-1998@reddit

2yr old thinkpad

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Lapis_Wolf@reddit

My desktop runs a Ryzen 5 5600G with no dedicated graphics card. My previous laptop runs a Ryzen 5 3500U.

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CCCBMMR@reddit

ThinkPad X230 from 2012 is what I daily drive. The ram has been upgraded to 16 GB, and it has an SSD. I also flashed the Skulls distribution of Coreboot.

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DragonfruitSoft800@reddit

I’m running an HP P6-2176S which is a quad-core i5 3.3GHz processor. I did upgrade the memory to 16g, the video card is a GTX-1050 and a 500 gig SSD hard drive. It runs very well and is quite fast. I’m not gaming but I do use KdenLive with Kubuntu as the OS. I think it was new in 2012.

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RandomIdiot918@reddit

Mine is a 2018 hp laptop. The problem isnt that it's a bit old, the problem is that it's intel i3, 8gb of ram, 1 gb integrated graphics. It overheats when I only open it in windows (I'm dual-booting).

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S2Nice@reddit

Desktop I built new around 2013, so about 13 yrs on my FX-8350. Still snappy, and there's nothing I need it won't run.

Laptop is a 6th-gen core i7, so about 10 years. It's just starting to feel sluggish now, and the WiFi has gotten dodgy. Time for an upgrade, I guess, but I can't complain about getting 10 years out of it. Last laptop did that and then some, including a deployment to Iraq and at least one virus infection on windows.

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triemdedwiat@reddit

Never as daily drive, but I've always used 'old'(whatever that means) in the rest of the SOHO. Decades our LAN went from one desktop, then two desktops, and then everything else as mostly headless servers.

Although, when we started the SOHO, Liinux was the new kid on the block

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AnApexBread@reddit

My windows laptop is 4 years old. My Linux laptop is 17 years old.

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Zacadaca@reddit

i recently found an old windows 7 laptop. chucked fedora on it, works great

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ben2talk@reddit

15 years old - so that's about 2010...

200 I bought a HP Pavilliona6120n desktop with Core2Duo E4400 and I can't remember if it came with 2GB and I added 2GB or if I bought it with 4GB. I think at the time I wanted to buy the best I could afford, then upgrade later...

It had (it still has) a LightScribe DVD writer which was very useful at that time. and Windows Vista™

It came with a HP Membrane keyboard, wired mouse, and a 1440×900 monitor - and I remember at that time that laptops generally appeared a less flexible and more expensive option...

I added an nVidia for playing Crysis, but that caused issues... in 2013 I bought a new case and power supply, along with an i3-4130 and 8GiB RAM and dropped the nVidia.

In 2023 the PSU exploded (10 years old...) and got replaced along with the now dead i3-4130, so now it's a Ryzen 5600G on a Steel Legend motherboard with 16 GiB RAM and a total of 12 TiB storage in the Coolermaster case from 2013.

But sure, laptops get old and can't be kept alive indefinitely... I never got around to buying one. My son bought a Ryzen laptop just 3 years ago, and the battery is already showing severe signs of degradation.

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StochasticCalc@reddit

XPS 15 from late 2017. I upgraded the RAM and SSD, installed Ubuntu, and it's completely fine.

The battery life is terrible but it's not poofed up yet and the machine lives on a desk anyway.

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diegotbn@reddit

My PC I built in 2017 is now a Bazzite steam machine in my living room.

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je386@reddit

My oldest computer is a Thinkpad T500, which is more than 15 years old (thats a Core2Duo, one of the first dualcores) and runs ubuntu.

I have a bunch of other laptops, all lenovo, all on ubuntu, but never than the T500.

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Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit

I just upgraded a few months back to a ryzen 7 with 32 GB of RAM, Lenovo. I'm quite happy as my previous was about 10 years old

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seeingeyefrog@reddit

I'm not sure of the age and I'm too lazy to research it, but it was built during the Windows 7 heyday. I built it myself with a quality motherboard and decent but not top of the line components. Nothing too powerful as I'm not a gamer, but I put in 16 GB of RAM and it is more than enough to suit my needs.

When Microsoft tried to force the Windows 10 upgrade on me, I noped out and decided I would at least give Linux another try.

And here I am.

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Rev3_@reddit

12+ year old Thinkpad laptop with Linux. Runs better than when new and getting epic battery life despite everything.

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TReijnders@reddit

HP ProBook 4410s - Linux Mint 22 64 bits

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DaddyGACanada@reddit

iMac model late 2015.

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houstonrice@reddit

Two PC ThinkPads - 2016, 2012 models

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GeronimoHero@reddit

My main Linux PC is a few months old Lenovo Thinkpad T14S Gen 6 AMD. I also have a T47s Thinkpad with a 7th gen intel CPU. Finally, I have a desktop running Arch that’s an x570 dark hero mobo, 5950x, 32GB ram, somewhere around 8TB storage, and a 3080Ti, all custom water cooled in a lian li case with an LG ultrawide.

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adobo_cake@reddit

I have a couple. Oldest working as a Plex and dev server now was built 2013, i7 4770k with a GTX 770 Ti. Then the WPS laptop is from 2016. On Linux Mint and Debian respectively.

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R4yn35@reddit

My Ryzen 2600 + RX570 desktop is 7, Ryzen 6800H + 3050Ti laptop is 3, and spare i5-2520M Thinkpad is 14 years old. All of them have 16 GB RAM in dual channel and SSDs. They run Arch Linux, the Thinkpad runs OpenBSD or FreeBSD sometimes.

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tycraft2001@reddit

2011 laptop. ASUS G74SX, had to remove battery cuz it was gassing me. Running Mint, NVIDIA GT 560M, 8GB RAM, i7-2630QM @ 2.900GHZ (Overclocked to 3GHZ for some reason I did) 900p screen TN panel. Running a 600GB 7200RPM drive.

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John_from_ne_il@reddit

The 3 computers I use most, all reformatted with Linux, are Vista-era, Win 7-era, and Win 10-era. All doing fine. Mint, MX, and OpenSuse Leap now.

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bocwerx@reddit

Linux turned my Ryzen 2700 into workstation of old. Windows 10 kept getting more sluggish with every update. Did the jump to Fedora 40 a year ago. The pc is very quick and snappy for such a modest config. My previous PC a Phenom 1100T lasted me 9 years. This will surpass that. As much as I'd love a new PC I don't have workloads that justify it yet..

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Significant-Tie-625@reddit

Disclaimer I do have a laptop that's only 2 years old

But i have another laptop from 2011/2012 that got a current install of Ubuntu studio. It does feel a bit sluggish, but it still runs better than win 8/10 ever did.

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bobj33@reddit

I have a lot of computers. Newest is a Ryzen 9 9950X that is 7 months old. Oldest is a Core i5 2nd gen from 2011 or so.

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el_submarine_gato@reddit

Oldest is a secondhand HP 830 G6 (i7 8665u). My other computers are newer-- main desktop gaming rig with a Ryzen 5700x and a 7800XT GPU, and a laptop with a Ryzen 7535HS/6500m GPU

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punkwalrus@reddit

I go by motherboard.

Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 0502
Release Date: 11/18/2016

So no older than that for my main driver. I probably built it within a year of that, because I built this PC with new parts (new for Newegg or wherever). I built this system shortly after I started dating my (now) wife, so that tracks. I know I have spares a lot older, though. A casual ansible command for dmidecode identified some from 2011 still working,

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Unusual_Medium5406@reddit

My main rig is a ryzen 5600 with a rtx 3060 at 32gb of ram My laptop?

Thinkpad t420 4gb of ram

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GrassyNoob@reddit

Asus ROG from 2010, System 76 from 2018 and MSI from 2020.

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met365784@reddit

My main rig is running a i5-14600k and 64gb ram which I could use a little memory with. I have i7-12700k, i5-11400, i7-10700k and i5-6600 and a few servers mainly running on Xeon e5-2690 v4 cpus.

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Von_Lexau@reddit

I found it in a dumpster a few weeks back. 5 year old Thinkpad

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ReidenLightman@reddit

My laptop is where I run Linux. It's a Framework 16. I preordered it in 2023 and got it early 2024. Framework has support for Ubuntu and Fedora, so when Ubuntu broke almost off the bat, I went to Fedora. It's been running Fedora ever since.

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sidusnare@reddit

I have a 1ghz P III running Debian Bookworm for archiving floppy, zip, and scsi disks.

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ZorakOfThatMagnitude@reddit

My daily is a 5 year old Thinkpad T14 AMD with a Ryzen 7, 2TB, and 32GB ram. It's my third Linux laptop and 8th personal Linux box since 97.

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DefiantFact6213@reddit

10 years old probably It can barely run PowerPoint 2007

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MilkZARD@reddit

CPU: 4 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1225 v3 @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.7 GiB usable)
GPU: Intel® HD Graphics P4600/P4700
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Precision T1700

I bought it in 2019 because I needed one for work, and it's still going strong like the first day I got it. I've thought about upgrading the processor and even adding a GPU and more RAM, but I haven't done it because it'd be cheaper to buy a new PC than to upgrade this one.

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UTB_63@reddit

2007 Mac Mini running antiX (MX Linux).

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Mortui75@reddit

HP Stream 11 (2015) - 2 GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC.

Runs Bodhi quite well.

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oradba@reddit

My laptop for non-business travel is a 2010 Portege (8gb i5), currently running GhostBSD, though it has run many different Linux distros.

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Professional-Bee1107@reddit

Hit 10 years this year. An old Toshiba. Everything runs well still. My oldest laptop that didn't die this long 😂

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jo-erlend@reddit

The oldest PC I use every day is from 2009. It's a laptop that had its screen broken late in its primary life and it wasn't worth replacing, so I turned it into a server/appliance. It runs some basic things like my accounting, budgets and personal journal. I could easily have replaced it with a Raspberry Pi or something, but the very low energy consumption isn't worth it for me, but I like having it as a separate machine to keep it safe. And I must admit, I just enjoy keeping old computers alive. :)

But I have a load of older desktops that I mostly use in the winter when I need the heat and there's more time to stay indoors. It's in a cluster and I use it just for playing with technology. But it's fascinating how much you can actually accomplish with a medium/high-end desktop PC from 10-15 years ago.

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Amazing_Actuary_5241@reddit

The daily drivers:

Family PC (February 2012) - AMD FX4100 Black with 8GB RAM and 256SSD - ElementaryOS 8 Laptop (October 2013) - Lenovo T430s i7 16GB RAM - ElementaryOS 7.1 Desktop (November 2021) - i9 with 32GB RAM - Ubuntu 25.04

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DHOC_TAZH@reddit

My daily driver is an Acer laptop from 2018. 8th Gen intel 8750H CPU, Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU. 32 GB DDR4 RAM. 2 SSDs: 1 nvme, 1 SATA. 2 TB each. Runs on the latest Ubuntu Studio LTS.

One of my spare laptops runs Lubuntu LTS. It's a cheapo from 2012. Pentium B960 CPU, 8 GB RAM. Not the fastest but still a treat to use for less demanding stuff. Kicked Windows 10 out for good in 2016. Replaced the SATA HD with a SSD in 2019.

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Negative_Link_277@reddit

My desktop is 5 years old. I however have Linux Mint running on a 2006 Thinkpad T60 with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 8GB RAM, 240GB 2.5" SSD.

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German_3473@reddit

Tengo una Lenovo 2 en 1, con un Intel Atom Z3735f y 2 GB de RAM. Y con Kernel 6.11.0-29 Y aún no consigo integrar los drivers del USB HUB para que me reconozca la webcam

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ShadowsRevealed@reddit

Built in March 2011. Still going. Cannot upgrade to 11 due to TPM

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ebits21@reddit

X1 carbon 7th gen thinkpad, 2019

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bloodywing@reddit

Daily driver:

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
a bunch of ssd and nvm in lvm
48GB ddr4 ram

I use it for games and drawing, the pc is over 10 years old where I simply change hardware when it gets too ancient :D.

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Idontknowyet0727@reddit

I used a Zenbook Flip Laptop from 2020 and switched to Fedora KDE a couple weeks ago, then made my First Desktop PC and installed Fedora KDE again then lost all of my files from my laptop when transferring to my Desktop.
Specs:
Ryzen 5 9600x
32gb Gskill X5 Flare 6000mhz Cl36
Asus Tuf B650M plus
Crucial T500 2tb SSD (and a random Pny Sata 3 500gb SSD)
RTX Titan (bought for $160 from crypto miner and it works great)

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Spacecow@reddit

Desktop: A few years old, Ryzen 5900X
Laptop: Thinkpad T440 circa 2012, i5-4300
The Good Laptop: Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT circa 1999, Pentium II

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akeno781@reddit

2017

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mkwlink@reddit

Intel Pentium P6100 Dual Core 2GHz 4GB DDR3 RAM 512GB HDD Released 2010

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advanttage@reddit

My main computer: Asus Zenbook - Fedora Workstation 42 - Intel i7 1165g7 / 16GB

My secondary PC: HP EliteBook 8470p - Linux Mint 22.1 - Intel i7 3612QM / 16GB

The HP originally came with a dual core i5-3320m but as soon as I saw it was a socketed cpu I started searching for a 35W quad core i7 and took my chances. It's been running with the quad core for nearly a decade now, crushing it!

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Lost4name@reddit

Running with a Celeron B815, runs good enough. Over 10 years old.

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MrMikeJJ@reddit

I built this PC in 2019. I fancied an upgrade, (but didn't need one from the one) I built in 2011.

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MrAjAnderson@reddit

Release day Raspberry Pi...still supported so won't be giving up just yet.

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PosterAnt@reddit

I5-8400 RX580 Gamer
I3-8100 Server
both with 16GB RAM

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Consistent_Photo_248@reddit

I forgot to include my server in my relpy.

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Consistent_Photo_248@reddit

Mine is a custom rig I built last year.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D 64GB DDR5 @ 6000 Mt/s Radeon 7800 XT OC 16GB 2 x 4TB Nvme storage

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FunManufacturer723@reddit

DAW/laptop is from 2016, running a rolling release distro.
gaming rig is from 2021, also running a rolling release distro.

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m1klosh@reddit

The oldest part of my computer is the PC speaker, it's from the last millennium. Beep-beep!

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RolandMT32@reddit

My main desktop PC is one I built in 2019 (it has an Intel i9-9900k), though I've upgraded a few things since then (Nvidia RTX 3080 TI GPU, bigger m.2 SSD, and more RAM, currently 64GB). I also have a second PC running a media server which I bought used, and is from 2018, with an Intel i7-8700 CPU.

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BaldyCarrotTop@reddit

Which one?

The one I'm typing on is brand new.

The one it replaced is a first gen i5.

The one next to it is a Core2 duo.

My Laptop is a 3rd gen i3.

My NAS is a Raspberry Pi 4.

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-t-h-e---g-@reddit

Core 2 duo/750ti/6gb ddr2 4 Lyft

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PartyAd4803@reddit

Only recently switched from a mid 2012 13inch macbook pro maxed out upgraded running ubuntu to a thinkpad p53

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aliendude5300@reddit

I did it complete rebuild in 2019. I've got a 5950x CPU and a 3090 GPU and 64 GB of ddr4. It's still pretty nice so I have no reason to upgrade it yet.

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you2we@reddit

Huh the oldest one i have is 2008...asus laptop....still working

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Training_Chicken8216@reddit

How old is the ship of Theseus?

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Ok_Manufacturer_8213@reddit

Ryzen 5000 Series and RX 7900 XT, not sure when I initially bought it because I upgrade parts of it from time to time

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Hawkeye_2706@reddit

A T420 that is like 14 years old (got it from my mother)

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angeluscatalan@reddit

My moms laptop runs Mint and its a Dell Studio 1540 from 2008. Some Core 2 Duo with 4 gb RAM and 320 gb HDD 5400 rpm. Actually she doesnt use it and i power on when i visit her.

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random-user-420@reddit

Pretty recent for both of mine.

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10, Intel i5-1240P, 16gb ram, running Debian with KDE.

ThinkPad X13 Gen 1, Intel i7-10610U, 16gb ram, running Windows 11 Pro.

As you can probably guess, the more powerful and expensive one is what I use daily, hence why it’s running Linux. The older and less powerful was bought with the sole purpose of running Windows programs that don’t work well with Linux

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whosdr@reddit

That depends on what part of the machine you measure.

Some parts are 8 years old, other parts are only 1-2.

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tomkatt@reddit

Recent…ish.

Ryzen 5600x, RX 6700xt GPU, 32 GB DDR4.

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Stunning_Ad_1685@reddit

EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF, first released in Q1 2014. Use it for everything.

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imacmadman22@reddit

I’ve got one of those too, except it’s the full size case. It’s a pretty solid machine.

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Jemie_Bridges@reddit

2006 HP Pavilion e6400 with 1gb of ram, 1GHz process that I assume is the world's shittiest P4, but might be just be a really good P3 with excellent marketing 🤣😂

I'm running Anti-X 23, cause MX & Lubuntu won't install on a non-PAE processor 😭 might try Skinny Puppy or Haiku or freeBDS later on. But Anti-X runs modern stuff so...

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yayuuu@reddit

One and a half year, Ryzen 7800X3D Nvidia RTX 4070 + AMD RX 6400 64 GB DDR5 Few TB of NVME storage

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imacmadman22@reddit

My oldest computer in use and primary Linux machine is a Lenovo S-20 running Mint 20.3 is from 2009. I got it for free in 2013 because it was going into the e-waste bin at work so I asked if I could have it and they gave it to me.

I had to get a new hard drive for it because of disposal requirements, but that was worth the trade off for a free computer. I have replaced the old hard drive with an SSD it continues to run like a champ.

I added a Nvidia Quadro K2000D video card that I also got for free because of the same reason and I’ve used it as my main desktop computer ever since. One thing I’ve never done is run Windows it, I’ve always run Linux Mint on it. It’s fast, quiet and reliable.

My actual oldest computer is a Lenovo T-61 from 2007 but it is retired, the video card has an issue and it doesn’t work right anymore but I keep it around because I can’t bear to toss it even though I should.

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Hrafna55@reddit

Older than I thought. I looked up my order history. I built this PC in October 2019.

It is a 'Ship of Theseus' though. I think the only orginal parts from that time are the motherboard, RAM and PSU.

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon
    v: 6.4.8 Distro: LMDE 6 Faye
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X570-PRO
CPU:
  Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX]
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.89 TiB used: 586 GiB (14.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T1R0B-68A4Z0
    size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T1R0B-68A4Z0
    size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-5: /dev/sdc model: iSCSI Disk size: 256.06 GiB

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Nulltan@reddit

Both my laptop and rig are amd 2018-22

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rbmorse@reddit

Two weeks. AMD AM5 (ASUS x870E Creator), X7800X3D, rx9070XT. Works fine with Linux Mint after upgrading the kernel to 6.12.

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lKrauzer@reddit

From 2018, AMD R5 3600 GTX 1660 Ti 16GB DC 3200

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DestroyedLolo@reddit

My main one is now an i7 / 16gb ram of 1.5 y/o (got from my former toxic job). It's running Arch.

But my second one is an i7 gen 4 more than 12 y/o. Unfortunately, it's limited to 8go ... And 8go is too limited for the video editing I'm doing. It's running an outdated Gentoo.

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MasterGeekMX@reddit

My main rig is a desktop system that I recently upgraded, so it is quite top:

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (6 cores @ 3.9 - 5.4 GHz)
64 GB RAM
1 TB NVMe SSD @ PCIe 5
8 TB HDD
AMD Radeon RX 7600
The disto that thou shall not mention it's name w/ KDE Plasma

My sidekick is a 2017 ThinkPad L470. It is the one I bring to Uni and field jobs

Intel Core i7 6500U (4 cores @ 3.1 GHz)
16 GB RAM
1 TB SSD @ PCIe 4.0
AMD Radeon R5 M330
Fedora Workstation w/ GNOME

And for other stuff such as multimedia center or experiments, a Raspberry Pi 5

Broadcom BCM2712 (4 cores @ 2.4GHz, ARM)
8 GB RAM
512 GB SSD @ PCIe 2.0
Raspberry Pi OS (Which is basically Debian with a custom simple DE).

But I like to tinker with anything I have in hand, so I have a stash of old PCs and other single board nanocomputers on the closet, all the way up to an IBM PS/2 from 1991.

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timmy_o_tool@reddit

My Linux machines are Lenovo x230 and T460. So what is that. 2013 and 2017?

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fuldigor42@reddit

2xNotebooks from 2014 with 4th generation intel. And a PC from 2023.

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whamra@reddit

An Asus ROG laptop from like.. 2017 I believe?

I bought it because it had a 17 inch screen and geforce 1060 with some Intel i7 processor that now I don't remember which gen anymore.

Only thing that changed over the years is I upgraded ram to 32 GB and upgraded the ssd several times till now it's half a TB. It originally came with a tiny one, but can't remember if 60 or 120.

It ran Win 10 for like a year, then I switched to Arch, and been on the same install since then.

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xte2@reddit

In the very past I was using old iron but it was a thing of the 2.4 kernel era, in the 2.6 era was already a large bit gone.

Mostly not because of GNU/Linux itself but because of what you need on a modern desktop: a typical Reddit page ALONE eat circa 200Mb of ram, a modern WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reason allocate way more alone just to show up. For an YT video you need GPU bogomips that in the past was a dream for some high-end workstation... Of course if you are RMS and do not use modern web it's still possible but... Even modern Emacs/EXWM eat a significant amount of resources if used with modern tools and waiting minutes to use an org-mode file is not much a pleasure...

For me a current GNU/Linux desktop should target i3/ryzen 3 with minimum 16Gb of ram, but 32Gb is recommendable for an AVERAGE user and 64 for a power user (who will like a i5/ryzen5 to have more PCIe lines) targeting a 10 years useful life. 8 comfy, 2 more still performing well, more possible but not at all comfortable. The same mirror in the past, so you can use a desktop with the spec like the above projected 10 years ago, where 8Gb or ram was already usable but little, 16Gb a wise choice/eventual upgrade just before the kind or ram disappear from the market, and you just need to change the video card. A new one have nvme storage, an old one sata but that's is for a desktop.

For a homeserver spec might be lower, but still projected in the past you probably have a PCIe 16x sata-card with an i3/ryzen 3 to have enough horsepower and storage, network will be a choke point since you can't have a 10Gbe because not enough PCIe lines in the CPU, but maybe 4Gbe (one builtin in a desktop mobo and 3 in PCIe 1x) should be enough in multipath.

These are IMO the SOHO users minimum/mean spec to target...

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Liarus_@reddit

not old at all:

9800x3D 6950XT

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MizmoDLX@reddit

Desktop: R9 9900X, X870 MB, Radeon 9700XT, 64GB RAM Laptop: Asus Zephyrus G14 2020 (4800HS, 40GB RAM)

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MaximumMaxx@reddit

Oh man. Ryzen 9 5950x, 4090, 64gb ram, 8 tb nvme drive, and a couple other than drives.

Parts have been upgraded over time but at this point I'm basically mostly waiting until the 5950x is just too slow. Swapping to AM5 is gonna be an expensive day that I'd like to put off while I can

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Slight_Art_6121@reddit

Lenovo Ion 32 bit netbook with 3gb ram (bought in 2009, upgraded to SSD. Runs Debian lxqt with nvidia drivers. Works great.

Old back up laptop (sell latitude D420) with 1.5gb. Runs void lxqt. Still usable.

Also have a modern windows laptop but hate it. Going to get some extra ram and put Linux on it.

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gold-rot49@reddit

5 years.

i5 10600k, 32GB ram, RTX 3050

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jalmito@reddit

4th gen i5 with 24 GB and an RX 570. No reason to upgrade.

Linux will run on even older hardware very comfortably.

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Pugs-r-cool@reddit

I've almost ship of theseus'd my PC at this point, built it in 2018 but the only parts that remain are the motherboard (thank god for AM4) and my old boot drive, which is now a tertiary steam library drive. Everything else got slowly upgraded piece by piece.

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DDOSBreakfast@reddit

My desktop is 2 years old (primary computer) and my laptop is 6, maybe 7 years old. There are some older parts in my desktop.

While many Linux distros will run on a potato I see no reason to use a potato as my primary computer.

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MulberryDeep@reddit

Nearly 11

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krum@reddit

i7-7700k.

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aenae@reddit

My case is from 2005. It has disks in it from ~2010-2025 (instead of reinstalling i just buy a new disk).

The psu is from 2024, the cpu, gen5 ssd, 128G ram and 5090 are all from 2025.

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0riginal-Syn@reddit

Mine is all over the place as I have far too many systems. In systems that I actually use, from a 4th gen Intel i7, to a 9950X3D / 9070XT and a Framework 13 AI 300 with a mix of ThinkPads and XPS laptops for testing and other uses. Also collect some vintage systems, but I don't count them for this.

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HyperWinX@reddit

Core 2 Duo P8600 + 4GB DDR3 running Gentoo.

AMD PRO A10-7800B + 24GB DDR3 (home server) running Fedora Server.

FX-8350 (dying, 3GHz) + 16GB DDR3 running Fedora KDE.

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devu_the_thebill@reddit

i use thinkpad x13 amd ryzen 5 pro 4650u for school and work and PC ryzen 5 7600 + RX 7800XT for gaming and some work (mainly havier programming)

I switched to linux tho when i had i5 7500 and gt 1030 tho so you kight be onto something. What made me switch was mainly curiousity since windows worked well (for it standards) on it but after using it for a while i noticed my pc is snappier and programming is a lot easier. Even now on modern hardware linux feels much snapier and im not happy with my school and work requiring windows.

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DFS_0019287@reddit

Main daily driver is a workstation I purchased in 2021, so almost 4 years old. My living room computer is 11 years old and my laptop dates back to about 2018. The laptop was given to me for free by a friend who found it much to slow for Windows, but it works fine with Linux.

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LoudBoulder@reddit

Desktop running Fedora 42 on a new to me 5700x, RX 9070, 128GB ram

Laptop running Fedora 42 on an old and trusty X1 Carbon g2

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WerIstLuka@reddit

bought in late 2018

installed mint in 2021 and used it since then

ryzen 5 1600x

rx 590

16gb ddr4 2666mhz

asus prime b450 plus

250gb boot ssd

a few terabytes of hdd's

and a cd drive for old games

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vancha113@reddit

Laptop is a 2009 t400s, desktop is a Ryzen 7600 with rx7600 and 32gb of ram bought this year. Laptop runs fedora, desktop runs Pop!_os, both use the cosmic desktop environment. Wife uses a new laptop bought this year, that came with Linux from the factory.

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inbetween-genders@reddit

My desktop sounds like uours except I have 16g ram. My laptops are newer though but I mainly use my 14 year old desktop.

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Kassebasse@reddit (OP)

I have tried to upgrade to 16 GB ram, however the system does not support it, however I have increased the swap partition to match the ram amount (I know it is bad to expand the swap instead of just buying more ram) to make sure I can have some programs open on the system at least

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inbetween-genders@reddit

As long as it still runs to your liking 👍. Mine seems fine but I wish I could set aside some money for a more up to date video card. Other than that, it does what I want it to do.

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Kassebasse@reddit (OP)

Yhea, I have other PC:s too, but this is more of a daily driver, watching youtube, using Discord, remote desktop... Light work :)

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