A new survey reveals users are waiting longer to upgrade. Over 49% of readers now wait three years for a new smartphone.

A new survey reveals users are waiting longer to upgrade. Over 49% of readers now wait three years for a new smartphone.

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    It didn’t have to be this way. I can run modern Linux on 20+ year old PCs.

    • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Enshittification, they code poorly on purpose so people need to upgrade their hardware for ever increasingly bloated software. Linux doesn’t play those games.

      • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Proprietary drivers and the lack of a hardware abstraction layer seem to be the main problems. The big, popular desktop environments on Linux have also grown pretty heavy, but there are plenty of alternatives.

      • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        A reasonable desktop from that era should be about comparable to a Raspberry Pi 4, which can certainly be useful. Power consumption is probably the main argument against it.