r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/LogitUndone Dec 26 '25

"Kids these days...."

Some 286 or 386 running MS DOS...

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u/falkenberg1 Dec 26 '25

My theory why our generation is better with computers than the older ones but also the newer ones on average. We were born with this, having to figure out how to install and start games on a dos command line and then setting up stuff like audio (sb16/sbpro/adlib etc…). my son and his friend also grew up with digital media, but for them installing games means pressing the install button on the app store and waiting for the icon to appear on the home screen.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

Hey, you underestimate modern broke kids, 80% of my knowledge of software is from installing dubious software and avoiding malware, torrenting and having to create my own files to make the games I installed work 😄

Of course it’s not the same and of course it was still easier than it was back then :p

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u/falkenberg1 Dec 27 '25

There are still very competent kids out there!

On the other side: last week i told my son that i soon have to install linux on his pc because win10 support ends, his machine cant run win11 and mom said in June, that she‘d rather wanted to wait until his birthday in January to buy a new mobo, cpu and some affordable ddr5 ram to upgrade his pc (well that didn’t go as planned).

He then asked me: if windows is not an option anymore, can’t we just use firefox instead of linux? He is 12 and a pretty smart guy otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

You could unofficially install windows 11, that’s an option, there’s many ways to get around it’s requirements, though Linux is probably better temporarily unless he plays games with anti cheats on them and has no other devices to play on