@cstross @blogdiva My desktop computer broke a year ago. I replaced the required parts and now it’s working again, of course better on paper, as the old one was over ten years old — mostly.

But in practice, the difference is not very much. Disk access is faster as I upgraded the spinning metal with SSDs, but mostly it does what its previous incarnation did.

And I’ve also been running a Thinkpad over a decade old (with debian), and it, too, does most of the things I want a computer to do.