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John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Is the casual home user going to do this?
> Is the casual home user going to run backups?
> 
> The answer to both is NO.

Indeed no. The casual user should not be running outdated hardware if
they want support.

> The only tradeoff is speed. You can have the lastest (Debian) and the
> greatest (Debian) on your old hardware. It works. It works great. it
> does not work terribly fast, but that is a limitation of the hardware in
> question.

Yeah but...it's frickin' DEBIAN! The casual home user can install
debian? Since when? Heck, *I* can barely install debian! :P

> With a lightweight window manager (Window Maker comes to mind) it will
> still work acceptably fast.
> 
> Unless you use Open Office.

Can the casual home user get by without an office suite? I've never met
one who could.

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