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Entry level PCs costing less than $500 ‘will disappear by 2028’, research firm predicts (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

Also distros aren't the final step of availability.
There are forks like elks linux runnable with 256Kb RAM.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Oh, yeah.

    I'm just thinking the more well known stuff with the "fancier" desktops and shipped with applications like LibreOffice and Firefox which are probably closer to familiar and don't look like a step back for Windows and Mac users.

    If you really want to extend the life of your hardware to the max, well, whilst Linux has discontinued support for 486 and Pentium processors last year, any hardware newer than that (so, around 30 years or less) will still run the latest kernel and as you mentioned there are distros targeting machines with very little RAM and HDD space.

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