So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn’t count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops…
Ikr. I’ve got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.
I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.
They’ll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.
So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn’t count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops…
It’s insane how many perfectly usable machines get designated for e-waste.
Ikr. I’ve got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.
I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.
They’ll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.