Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10

[P.J. Denyer]

I have been using the same PC for about 16 years.
I have to say, it's had three operating systems , three motherboards, 4 processors, two power supplies, several different hard disks, new fans and numerous ram upgrades in that time.
It's still the same case though.

I've had one of my PCs about that long, 2nd OS, swapped the HDD for an SSD and I need to pull it out and change the CPU fan, at the moment I'm blowing a hand fan through the open drive bays when it's switched on!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Just call me computer Trigger.

 

[Joe Random]

I just finally got around to getting rid of these. One was Windows 95, one XP, and I'm not sure about the other one. Donated to a self-titled "Geek" shop that will either refurbish these "vintage" machines or cannibalize them and sell the parts. I could have done that myself, but figured it would be far more effort than it was worth. It's a reputable place, with a guarantee of disc data destruction so I'm not worried about old data being extracted. (I believe I may have taken out the hard drives anyway!)
I haven't had a desktop since that last one on the right -- laptops all the way now.

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Nice that you sprang for the dual cup holder option on the middle box.

 

[a_unique_person]

My Win11 PC has a problem with waking after hibernating that I suspect is caused by the AMD video driver.

I looked at the dump and it's telling me my OS is windows 10 so you may as well "upgrade" since it's still the same OS anyway.

 

[alfaniner]

Nice that you sprang for the dual cup holder option on the middle box.

I'm pretty sure that one was a CD player only, while the other was a read/write unit or maybe even a DVD player/writer.

 

[Blue Mountain]

I have been using the same PC for about 16 years.
I have to say, it's had 3 operating systems, 3 motherboards, 4 processors, 3 graphics cards, 2 power supplies, several different hard disks, new fans and numerous ram upgrades in that time.
It's still the same case though.

The Computer of Theseus.

 

[novaphile]

I have been using the same PC for about 16 years.
I have to say, it's had 3 operating systems, 3 motherboards, 4 processors, 3 graphics cards, 2 power supplies, several different hard disks, new fans and numerous ram upgrades in that time.
It's still the same case though.

Oddly enough, I'm in a similar position.

In my case, it's because I bought a Gigabyte Posseidon case that appears to have been designed by Lian Li.

https://www.gigabyte.com/PC-Case/GZ-XA1CA

It's such a nice case, I'll probably keep it forever.