darry wrote on 2025-05-13, 01:22:

The point I was trying to make is that, while using Linux can keep old hardware usable and useful, there comes a point where eve […]
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The point I was trying to make is that, while using Linux can keep old hardware usable and useful, there comes a point where even pedestrian consumer appliance type hardware like a somewhat dated Chromebox can

- be faster
- run cooler
- be cheaper to operate

than very old high end desktop hardware, depending in the actual use case.

I think the future of linux, and OSes for 'desktop' generally is 64bit PCs and various SBC or similar low powered devices with an increasing trend towards everything being "cloud" and "AI" with the devices being always online, being basically high spec input/output devices. That's a guesstimate - difficult to strongly predict anything.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/pc-sales-are-ri … leading-the-way

PC sales were up again recently.... You can find market analysts that consider the volumes to stay up long term too, whether that means Linux can keep up and whether the concept of having a PC offline most of the time (like we did back in the day) will seem strange i dont know