Here is a better way to build your Linux machine that will last for ten years or more!
Here is a better way to build your Linux machine that will last for ten years or more!
This thread got locked recently, so please help me restart it with MODS! It has been about ten years since this old rig started working. The only thing that happened last year was switching to Debian Stretch because I had to do it before June 2017 instead of later. Firefox on the old Jessie version (before Stretch) used a lot of ads and became unusable for me, but Firefox Quantum ESR (68.9esr) is working fine now that we are using version 91.5.0esr on Stretch. Browsing still goes pretty well, even if some ad-heavy pages sometimes slow down the browser or make it hang. I'm thinking about adding an ad blocker extension soon. My only real worry after upgrading to Stretch is that cropping images with gthumb (version 3.4.4.1) takes a lot of time and feels jerky. That's probably because the old graphics card isn't very strong anymore, so maybe it just needs more power? I don't have any big plans for this year, but I am hoping to upgrade to Debian Buster sometime in early 2023. Good luck with everything!
I'm still doing okay. Nothing wrong happened during 2022...We're using the older version of Debian Stretch from 2017, planning to switch over to Buster in late 2019. Now I have access to my own funds!
Think about it differently. What if we turned this question into a conversation instead of just asking for an answer?
The old thread isn't gone, but it's just been closed for new stories.
I still have this old computer in my hands. Since the last time I updated my Debian system, I moved from Stretch to Buster. After that change was made, things got really slow when I tried using Outlook Web on my browser Firefox while running the 4.19 kernel version instead of a newer one like 5.10. Nothing helped until I turned off the hardware acceleration in Firefox. I think this means the old computer is going to be done soon, but time will show it. Good luck anyway! Currently, I'm planning to upgrade to Bullseye later this year.