Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Why I Don’t Believe in Conspiracies" video.

  1. I'd say, a little research on your part would have been wise. The 2 comments below say pretty much the same thing, your PC is fine, outside of the CPU, and even that challenge is not insurmountable for the end user to circumvent. A case in point, I bought 2 refurbished computers, one a 7th gen Core i5 processor in the small form factor Dell Optiplex desktop last fall, and it was already upgraded to Windows 11 Pro. Today, bought an 8th gen Core i5 based laptop that was upgraded to Windows 11. Both came with SSD drives, the desktop an NVME based M.2 drive, the laptop is SATA based M.2 and both came kitted with 16GB of DDR4 RAM. While not for the overall long haul, they will more than suffice for the next couple of years at least and both cost less than $250 each.
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  2. Something to be aware of, running out of support OS will, as Leo and I think others have said, make it so some software fails to be supported, once they realize you are running an older out of support OS (anything before Windows 10). This means most browsers will force you to use an older version that will not play nicely with the web and most websites (ask me how I know this), and Opera, while still supposedly supported and will give you updates for older OS' that are out of support (XP for instance), I have had issues getting it to work, getting the downloader to function, let alone Opera to open up and browser to a website. Also, some software like Audacity will force you to run an older variant of it until you update to a supported OS (Win 10+). Also, if you keep using older versions of software, just be aware that they will go out of support eventually by the software vendor themselves (Adobe, I'm looking at you). I used to use the CS4 version of the Master Suite and this past fall, had to replace my old PC (a 10 YO Dell Optiplex) for a newer one (it's 6 YO and runs Windows 11) and when I went to install, from DVD, CS4, found out the servers were shut down by Adobe so could not even install it and have now had to find alternatives. So I now run the latest version of Audacity for any DAW jobs, have a temporary work around for editing photos (no Photoshop), you get the idea, and run Libre Office for MS Office and PDGear for all PDF work as I'm not paying a subscription to Adobe for the present creative suite. So keep that all in mind if you insist on running an old OS like XP or Windows 7. I had thought about Linux, but when I was still running older Windows based software, finding workarounds for all that was more than I was cared to tackle so stay with Windows. Besides, having run both 10 and 11, I don't find either bad at all. Certainly, both are way better than Vista. 7 was fine, not familiar with 8-8.1 as I skipped right to 10. Now, to be fair, the 64 bit version of Vista was not all that bad, but I've hears the 32 bit version was worse and accounted for much of the issues with Vista.
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