> always been “reduce, reuse, recycle” in that order
my dev machine for boring CRUD apps is from 2011 :-D
the only thing I upgraded was RAM and a SSD - its a 4x 3Ghz board; it works quite well despite the fact that its 15 years old :)
(honestly, the only thing why I do not switch is because of reinstallig the whole setup)
Re-install? Just set the bootloader, and rsync the stuff over?
Not sure: Its a Windows machine? :-D
With Linux you could probably just move the drives over and it would work.
Probably.
I could try but then propably I have to open a thread like: "Tell HN: I crashed my 15 year old machine setup this evening by trying to switch to Linux" :-D
But this time would be really a great option to finally switch on this machine, you are right - I thought about it for years now and I found out in the meantime that most of the apps are running without any problems in virtualization (if required)
The thing is - by now, I'm too lazy :-) (Esp. I should add a backup machine for this procedure, since this old Windows setup is in productive use)
Nuke it from orbit