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”.
When windows insists your key is no longer valid, because to many parts have changed and you better buy a brand new licence or link your old licence with you microsoft account. But of course you never did befor upgrading, so now you are stuck in an endless loop of trying to find the right buttons online to fucking link your licence to your account and get it approved for the upgraded pc, but it won’t work and where did that one link go? And why won’t micorsoft allow me to use my key oh god, oh no. Please microsoft!
Penguins are coming for me.
I have the hdd bay plate off a laptop with a broken screen that I bought off a friend about 15 years ago. Every time I’ve needed to spin up a windows I put the code for that machine in and promise I’m upgrading to the current OS from an early win7 release. Works every time.
At some point I ought to cut it down and decorate it as some modern magical charm.
Haha, I had that recently setting up a VM. Using my old key I had since Win 7 came out, just upgraded along the way. Suddenly it doesn’t work.
“Uuuuuh… Wtf do I do now?”
I got it working, but after forgetting how painful a Windows install is and then setting it up properly, I gave up. Got Vivaldi on and just was so over it at that point, knowing there was still at least an hour of more work to put in before Windows was under control.