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Life of a PC gamer (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think these days the PC value argument is a lot more about longevity and versatility than price.

Like in my case, I want to have an old fashioned LAN gaming setup in my house. I've already managed to find four PCs stored away, and they are all going to work great. Three are already set up and have linux installed and everything. So they cost a decent amount in their day, but now they're kind of just free extras.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've been with my wife for around 10 years now. When we started dating she had a PC that wasn't exactly top of the line, and it was already a couple years old, but was still pretty beefy for its time. She did a couple upgrades over the years, more RAM, SSD, etc. but most of the components were the same ones she originally bought probably around 2013-ish

    About a year ago she decided it was time for a major upgrade and built a whole new computer.

    I took all of her old components and stuck them in a new case. I of course had to buy a hard drive, power supply, some fans, etc. and it wasn't maxing out the graphics on the latest AAA games like her new rig can, but it still managed to run pretty much everything I threw at it.

    After a couple months I did scrounge up a newer graphics card from a friend doing some upgrades of his own, which was a nice upgrade, but not totally necessary.

    I am now running into an issue with some newer games not liking the old processor even though it technically has the required specs (and it's not windows 11 compatible) so I'm likely going to be doing some major overhauls of my own soon, and I think I'll probably recycle these components into a home server or something, so I wouldn't really be surprised if this PC of theseus remains in service in some capacity for a full 20+ years.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok bear with me here but we're on Lemmy so I think I get in trouble if I don't ask this...

    Have ya tried Linux on the old machines? If not, you can make a bootable USB of Linux Mint and play around with it without changing anything on your system. The UI is laid out like Windows.

    Nothing makes an old machine sing like installing Linux!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And as luck would have it, I actually was just talking to another friend about this and he turned up a gnome extension that looks like it does exactly what I need, so it may become a Linux machine yet.

    I do still want to do some upgrades and I kind of got to like the server idea though so perhaps I'll be building a new Linux PC and also recycling the old parts into a server

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Like a lot of people I have one or two things keeping me tied to windows for now

    The main one for me is a little goofy, but my computer is hooked up to my TV and it's synced up to my Philips hue lights.

    My other consoles and such work fine through the hue sync box but for some reason the PC does not, so I have to rely on the hue desktop app to get the PC synced to the lights

    And of course they don't support Linux, and from what I've seen online WINE and the other usual workarounds don't do the trick either

    There's a couple of people out there who have cobbled together alternatives, but none of them are quite where I want them to be yet.

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