I was wondering when people consider themselves to have a new PC. Technically I’ve had the same PC for close to 20 years now, but every part’s been upgraded several times over.

I figure everyone’s got a different mind about it. For me, I’d have to say when all of the big three—CPU, GPU, mobo—have completed a phase, my brain thinks of the previous setup as “the old PC”.

  • ccunning
    2·
    19 days ago

    Whenever you have to do a clean fresh OS install…

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      1·
      18 days ago

      By this metric, back when I used Windows, I got a lot of “new PCs” while still on the exact hardware as the old one - not even because I changed anything substantial, but because it’s hard to impossible to keep a Windows install from slowing down due to clutter and bullshit. Hasn’t been an issue at on Ubuntu, even though I’m still accumulating a lot of installed applications, packages etc.