Stefan Brüns composed on 2022-10-08 19:42 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
Not all users buy. Many can only acquire whatever is available for no money.
Enterprises buy. Private persons buy. And this hardware ends up with persons who can not afford to buy sooner or later.
And now with an arbitrary support lifetime cutoff, once they get them they'll be useful to the poor from 0-4 years. I'm not sure very many private persons give theirs up while still functional, unless to family members. Reasons to replace don't seem to include performance to much degree any more. I have 3 PCs newer than the 8 year old one I run 24/7 and am typing this from. Once you have NVME, there isn't a whole lot of improvement, if any, left to notice checking email, shopping, and wasting time on social media. Most people don't invest in hardware replacement just to save a little energy, particularly those who use A/C little to none and are happy to have the heat less efficient ones emit. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata