All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It’s plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn’t like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can’t afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn’t hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.
Looks like your problem is Windows. Linux works much better on old hardware.
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to get rid of Windows for a while now. Haven’t really used Linux since like 2010, so it feels like a lot to get into. Already saved some websites, articles, and lemmy posts with good info, though.
One reason I haven’t done it yet is because I did manage to save up a bit of money (only like $300) after about a decade of never being able to feed myself at the end of each month. The plan was to get a steam deck, something I’ve deeply wished for ever since I heard about it, and keep the laptop only as a backup. But I got robbed… forgot my card at a grocery store self checkout, and someone took it and somehow managed to use it. Had just gotten money for that month, so no bills had been paid yet. Not only did I lose the saved money, but I had to take out a loan to pay my rent, etc. So any dream of a steam deck or anything else is dead, it will take years to pay off that loan.
Have a hug!
Thank you, I needed that!
Have you tried blowing out the fan? After 13 years it might be all gunked up
Everybody with a Thinkpad
My 12 year old thinkpad is still my daily driver.
Speakers stopped working 5 years ago tho. Only BT audio out, now.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Of course, God bless his kind soul, may the eternal peace lay on his lands
Rumor has it he isn’t actually a kind soul, just a nerd with a dream.
Verbally slaying the sinner is a form of kindness. Letting people break user space willy-nilly is not kind
I use a 12 year old laptop as my daily driver, and use it to do high res video editing. A decade old computer these days is still highly capable.
This is the weird, sentimental attitude that has me buried in clutter
My Zune still playing
cough hack wheeze
“Is that all you got?”
I let my brother use mine to play Minecraft.
Here, bro. Here’s your laptop
Pay me back some other time.
I’ve never had any issues playing music on a 10 year old laptop
Pretty sure anything capable from the Windows XP era onwards could play an MP3.
Whether it run the bloated Chromium mess that the Spotify client is, is another matter.
Hell, my winME lappy could do it withour breaking a sweat.
A 486 at 33MHz struggled but you could definitely do MP3 on any Pentium or higher.
