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Old 26th April 2025 | 14:46
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alanjpraha
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You people all seem to be windo$e victims! I use a 50-dollar Raspberry Pi 5 - 8GB memory, 512 GB storage (those are extra dollars) running Void Linux. It reboots in <17 seconds, from when I read the last post to the login prompt - and login works immediately. Lest you think this is a toy, it drives a 31-inch monitor (and could drive two simultaneously), and runs web browsers, libreoffice, librecad, gimp and many others. I don't play games, I don't edit video but I don't find it at all slow in what I do. Oh, and it drives scanners, printers , dataloggers and anything else you can stick on it. I've never used (or needed to use) anti-virus stuff in 58 years of computing.

This is not meant as a boast: I'm just horrified at what software vendors have done to computers. Microsoft must be the worst but by no means is it the only culprit. Imagine your favourite high-performance sailplane stuffed with half a ton of garbage!
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