Some things never change. My ancient laptop (see system specs) cost about the same when it was new, and runs FSX with all graphics settings maxed out. I really didn't have any interest in getting a...

Wow.. no support for multiple GPU? Still on DX11? Although it does seem possible to get great performance at 1080p, which is good enough.

Good articles. Thanks for the heads-up.

I want to build a machine that can handle Flight Simulator 2020 at max graphics. Is that even possible? I'm way behind the times in what hardware is available, because the last time I built my own...

I use Protonvpn. The free version is pretty good, and the paid plans are excellent. And it's fast.

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Surprised this old dinosaur can run it...352095

grunt

Only a few months before I'm closer to 80 than 20.

The problem is whenever I walk away from my computer for more than a few minutes, some process is causing my HDD to run at 100%, and is making the computer slow and unresponsive. As soon as I try to...

Update: A Screenshot of my Xubuntu Desktop, using a screenshot of my windows 7 desktop set as a wallpaper, posted while booted into windows 10. 345220
I keep windows 7 quarantined.

Thanks.

Now, if I remember correctly, extracting the install.wim file directly to the partition then running update-grub from linux will make it possible to install windows 7 directly from my SSD...

IDK how well the windows version works in comparison, but I use the Linux version of Audacity. It can improve the sound quality of low bitrate mp3s. You're going to lose some data, but the equalizer,...

Hello.. and thanks to those who have helped with questions I couldn’t find answers for on my own.

Yes, it would, but reinstalling the other OSs after the fact would be worth the effort, if there's no legitimate way to get clean installation media for windows 7.

I use vbox from time to time, to test out new linux upgrades before installing them, but you can't play Modern Warfare 2 on a vbox guest OS.

The subject of my licenses is not a debate. I...

Last year I bought a $50 government surplus laptop built in 2009. (see system specs) I don't make a lot of money, so I can't afford much in the way of hardware, but I quickly realized what I have is...

I haven't tried that, mainly because disassembling this machine is an exercise in frustration... for example, you have to remove the keyboard to get at two of the memory slots. And if I break...

I'm pretty sure mine could run 11 too, but the TPM is deactivated because it was causing problems whenever I booted into linux. (I set a password on the bios and the SSD as an antitheft measure, then...

I'm running a government surplus 2009 HP Elitebook 8540w on 21H1. It has a 1st Gen core i7. The battery was replaced and storage was upgraded it to 32 GB RAM and a TB SSD. All of the hardware works...

I suppose I should have specified the current version. Although it is pretty cool you can get a machine that old to run it at all. Mine is only about 4 years newer.

Came here to ask this question. I doubt most of the machines mentioned in this thread are still operable.