My router has a pretty descent firewall so i feel like it should be safe? Maybe. Obviously I won't be signing into any online accounts or anything like that on the XP machine. Is this a bad ideas? Obviously using Windows in general is a bad idea but I'm sort of limited by the hardware here.

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[–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

I mean yeah, safer and better but I wouldn't be able to game on it though. It's not like the thing supports Vulkan.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Steam OS? Or emulators? It's not like an old laptop is going to be running modern games

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I doubt SteamOS will run on a laptop from 2003. Maybe Atari 2600 and NES emulation will work fine. I don't expect this shitbox to run Cyberpunk 2077. I was hoping more for Postal and Quake.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe SteamOS wouldn't work, but maybe something like Debian or Linux Mint. Especially Debian is designed with a lot of backwards compatibility, even though it is very slow at adopting new updates for software (that are not security relevant).

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