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Wait, this is stupid but what are the specs of our hypothetical PC. Can I put Linux on it to kill an hour?
If it's an office desktop, we're probably talking a low-end Intel Pentium with 256MB RAM. If there is a discrete graphics card, it'll be one of those ultra-basic ones, but chances are it'll be onboard only. There's probably a CD-ROM drive (DVD drives were still quite expensive!) and USB 2.0.
Holy shit, no idea what to run on that. Modern Linux mint has no chance of running on that
Could spend your 12 hours making it run! Plenty of tinkering opportunity there :D
Sounds fun, but my terminal knowledge ends at
sudo apt get adventure
i have a couple dual core athlons (windsor and brisbane athlon 64 x2) at the office from that era. they are still used, even. have 8gb ddr2, dvdrw, and dx10-capable geforce cards.
Must've been an office with money, then...
i personally bought them. no i don't have money. didn't then either. they were about $200 each, just prior to when vista started shipping (they were on sale). ram was upgraded from scrap, so was one of the video cards and one of the cpu (they were both originally windsors)--the other was bought new for ~$50 in late 2008 or so.
That's pretty impressive. I'm especially surprised about the 8GB RAM considering that was a lot even in the early 2010s.