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I'm on a 1080Ti and i haven't had the urge to upgrade
The only reason I want to freshen up is because when I built my comp over a decade ago I used, what was sufficient at the time, a too small default memory card for the computer to boot from and now it's struggling to not choke itself on its own bloat. Not mentioning since my last expedition overseas when I shut down the system for a long time the file explorer has become buggy and slow.
I'm torn between saying fuck it and finally build a new system with more modern parts or trying to keep what I got and try to continually fix it because I can't be fucked to deal with trying to work with redownloading windows 10 on a new system and having it try to force me to use version 11. Oh the banality of being a tech barbarian.
Kneeling at the altar of windows XP sp2 and longing for a bygone era.
Oh I miss XP. It was a vibe
Yeah, I probably used 7 for a lot longer in the extended timeline but something about it felt right.
Ok I cant not also mention that until the remaster came out it was the only operating system that ran starcraft brood war without input lag and graphical errors
I know you've probably considered this already but Linux would breath new life into the old gal
It's a pain to fuck with downloading anything because it takes tens of minutes for file explorer to open and a good chunk of the time it crashes itself.
If you've got access to any other computers in your life, you could get a live USB going. Before installing, you could backup your files while you're in the live environment.
This is the first time I've heard of live USBs. We truly live in the future don't we. It's just a bit more shit than we dreamed of when we were kids.