brothershamus

Member that time when Microsoft got dragged in federal court for ten years before they eventually decided Microsoft was a monopoly for forcing their browser on everyone and then sweet fuck all happened to them for it?

Well the judiciary sure has changed - now they’re way more computer savvy and they . . . checks earpice . . . I’m sorry, that should be: they’re just as fucking clueless as they were thirty years ago if not even more so. We’re screwed, goodnight.

And now we’re living in the “that was a bad idea” world.

I’m pretty sure it’s the nazi propaganda that’s annoying. Poor Elmo though, all alone with his drugs and his white power and his billions of dollars and international governmental tie-ins. Dadgum hippies just like hatin’ on him to be “cool” and “hip”.

You’ve got two different questions in there, I think. One of them is “what’s so great about mac” and the other is “what to do with an old mac”?

It sounds like you’re likely to be frustrated finding out the answers to the first one on that machine, though for some people a Catalina OS on a form factor or model they really like is sublime. If you’re just trying out the os from the Windows side of things, it’s not as fun because there’s some learning curve stuff that’s just annoying to get through at first. Command-key vs CTRL, but Command-key is the Windows key on some keyboards so -??? stuff like that.

As for the “what to do with it” question, I’d argue the form factor would answer it. for an iMac, I’d think about a music station, maybe find some good visualization programs (there was a milk plugin for VLC I found awhile ago that I liked). A browser / emailer / kbinner is good if you have the keyboard and mouse you like. Or, if you just want to put it on a shelf and look at it’s coolness, a digital photo frame. The last iMac I saw my friends had in their kitchen for music, recipes, youtubes etc.

If none of those interest you, then yeah running Linux is always an option and a darned fine one. Make it the killer Kali seekrit station or whatever :D