I wrote an article a while ago that was critical of Linux developers who refuse to maintain distributions that run on computers that are more than about 15 years old. For that, I received no small amount of criticism from Hacker News readers. Some said I did not understand the difficulty involved in creating and maintaining a Linux distribution. A few told me just to put an old version of Windows back on my old computer. I began using Linux in the first place to avoid Windows, AKA the monste...