2026-10-16 18:10 UTC
I bought a computer in 2007 that was 8GB of RAM and a TB Hard-drive, but a recent windows update bricked the machine because it didn’t have enough space. Is that what’s going to happen to these machines? Just, right off-the-line and into the garbage?
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@stembolts@programming.dev 2026-10-16 19:01
Not sure, on Linux I don’t really think about these things. Never had a computer become “bricked”. Tbh it’s great for the Linux community because we can pick them up secondhand cheap and continue using them. Brick more laptops Windows. 🐸
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@Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2026-10-16 20:26
I doubt its fundamentally destroyed unless it did that during a bios update. You can probably install linux on it