good post! you may as well get win 10 ESU, give yourself another year of safe use to work out what you want to do in the long run :) I came across this vid a while back with a free and easy method (minimal data sharing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERDjeKN1_Es

tbh I am considering between windows 11 (or 10) ltsc and windows 10 with the ESU thing. I don't think I'll be using Linux for now because I had a lot of issues the last time I tried it sadly. The LTSC versions of windows are really clean and don't have much bloat if at all and the LTSC versions of windows 11 are actually tolerable without the bloatware and the AI (no way!)

Those are solid options! especially with LTSC giving you security updates for another several years (assuming it doesn't strip down too much? I've never used it). And yeah, Linux is rough outside of fortunate conditions and hardware. That's why I made all my computer pages on here, I'm near constantly troubleshooting some bullshit, lmao.

new post, also changed the bsky link since i moved to another instance (idk how to explain lmao)

this was a good read. San Andreas is the best <3, also u reminded me of the 'cartoon network summer resort' flash game. Also have similar feelings regarding not wanting to play the many games I have, I think so many modern ones kinda feel like 'work' more than pure fun.

finally added a hardware entry for my phone that I use, lmao

oooh there's a community made port of ubuntu touch for this phone (if you want a worse experience than lineage, lmao)

Cool post :) I have similar feelings when using my old toshiba satellite laptop from 2011. That still runs today with antiX, but a safe modern browser is the biggest resource drain, taking the RAM use from like 250mb up to 800mb-1gb, lmao. Glad you got windows 7 running!

yeah modern browsers are pain on older hardware, I tried using a chromium based one called supermium (that still supports Windows 7) and that pegged the CPU to 100% whenever a page was loading LMAO

ugh that sucks. I wonder if any the old style Firefox offshoots would work better like; pale moon, basilisk, or sea monkey. They'll still suck with modern sites, but maybe less CPU use 🤷‍♂️