Each device has to be assessed on a case by case basis.There are really no one size fits all solutions when it comes to dual booting anymore, but there are commonalities to the process. Legacy systems are much easier to deal with, but they an endangered species.
I too am a hands-on learner. I never really did good reading books and text books, and trying to remember what I had learned, to try and ace the tests and book reports.
I learned more about how an RC-car worked by taking it apart. It didn't work anymore after putting it back together, but hey, I was just a kid, cut me some slack lol. I started doing much better when I was working on computers, they still worked after messing with them, well, most of the time lol.
When I was first going through school, I really thought I was going to become a computer programmer some day, simply because I had a big interest in them. It wasn't long however till I learned that I didn't have the mind for coding. And plus, I would need to know some real advanced math just to begin the foyay into the fray.
Truth is, I ended up taking an interest in mechanics as well, it wasn't long before I took shop in high school that confirmed I had the nack for it. But computers are also used in a shop too, how do you think you order parts, look up illustrated parts lists, print out invoices.
Truth is, computer's play a major part of our lives now. Its not like the old days before the internet, back then people could function without it, without a computer, and registers were still simplified. Now days, a store can't function without working power to the registers, a full network, and internet connection.
I remember a couple of times when I was in our local store shopping when suddenly the power went out. The girl couldn't do a transaction manually, cause they rely on a computerized register so much. My mom was older generation, an accountant wiz, she could manually do the transaction, her brain was like a walking calculator, she didn't need no fangled machine to tell her what it is.
But of course, I am speaking of cash based transactions obviously. Nobody is going to make dial up modem sounds with their mouths and magically process your credit card lol.
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I open my Acer Aspire every couple of years to clean inside and replace thermopaste under the CPU. Will see how long I can keep this pre EFI BIOS machine alive.
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My old legacy mother board bundle with an Athlon X IV 8Gb of ram runs great, but I need a case and power supply. I haven't committed to recycling it yet !
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Those are 2 parts I always pay as much as I could afford.
After AT to ATX transition, they do not change at all.
While I was working as a system integrator, I quite often managed to salvage those 2 parts my clients had.
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Do you know Steve at Gamers Nexus on Youtube? Well, that guy has been doing video's on pre-built computers, some of which come from system integraters. And let me tell you, I think times have changed since you were doing it.
He's showed us a lot of shoddy workmanship, and things that utterly make no sense at all in the computer builds. And the one take I got from it all is, either just build your own and it will be better then this garbage, or buy a notebook computer lol.
As gaming enthusiasts we have high standards, this is true. But lets be brutally honest here. Some of the machines that have been coming from Dell, HP, as well as a few of the SI's, have left much to be desired. lol
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No, I haven't seen that name before but I have repaired loads of computers for family and friends.
I've seen loads of weird and wonderful things when repairing them. The oddest recently was an Acer that came with a 1TB HDD drive with windows 10 preinstalled, and a 250 gb NVMe M.2 SSD installed but unused. Nothing on it, not even partitioned. WD Black too so.... I'll leave you to figure that one out.
All but my main Dell Desktop, and an Acer Nitro 5 laptop, came from Industrial skips, or from stuff that other people didn't want any more. I've got 8 Desktops and 4 Laptops at the moment that were all junked. I've also got a box of bits and pieces that my wife swears she will burn one day when I'm out. One of the desktop units I skip salvaged some years ago was a Tyan 88812 with 32 512mb sticks and 4 quad core Opteron installed. For a long time it ran my Chess software on Playchess, and is now used by my son who's doing an I.T. degree course.
I love building PCs from the stuff that others throw away. Linux is ideal for this kind of thing too. That's why I'm making the effort to learn whilst I still have a few years left.
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