Microsoft Destroyed My Computer (or so it seems)

October 8, 2019 | ML/NJ

[bgill]

Same here a while back. The repair guy said not to download anymore updates. That’s what I’d been thinking for a while so haven’t and won’t.

Have a new annoying bar at the top this week stating Flash won’t be supported after Dec. Oh, well. It zapped out Word a couple months ago. Every day I wonder what else they’ll zap to force us to get that evil 10.

[bgill]

I bought a 10 a couple years ago. Tried it. Hated it. Put it back in the box. Six months later, tried it again and hated it more. Rinse and repeat. Hubby’s Linux died so he got the 10 out of the box and... hates it. I saw him running updates yesterday that took all day long and he says it usually does.

Last time at the repair shop, the guy said most all his customers hate 10 so much that he’s refurbishing 7s. He had a few 7s on the shelf but told me mine was better (knock on wood).

[zeugma]

All computers will die of old age at some point. It’s not always the OS that’s the problem. If you have an win7 machine you’re going to have age issues that will kill it at some point and you will lose anything that’s not backed up.

While technically true, in that hard drives will eventually fail, and you could have another physical hardware failure, unless you have a program that requires some capability that the newer CPUs provide, your computer should easily last 10 years or more. The horsepower available these days in PCs is way more than the average non-gamer will ever use.

I recently had to finally bite the bullet and upgrade my desktop because a program I need to use, and need to have support for because of my job (VMWare) no longer supported the CPU that I was using because it makes use of some of the newer virtualization features of the newer processors. My old computer was just shy of 10 years old, and was still working fine, but then, I'm using Linux on my desktop rather than MS-Windows so it doesn't just slow down with time, as seems to be the case with Microsoft operating systems. I fully expect the new desktop I built to last 10 years or more, because I buy just a hair below the top end of processor line when I build. Given my configuration, it doesn't get stressed out at all until I'm running 4-6 virtual servers in my VmWare environment, and even then it's mostly memory constraints, not a raw horsepower issue.

Most home users who are not running modern games or hardcore 3D graphics modeling or something like that should have no problem continuing to use older systems.