Comments on: 6 Ways to Repurpose Old Desktop PC https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/ Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jim https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/#comment-132370 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:54:01 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/?update=20251230#comment-132370 Step one is convert to LInux. You might wonder why you bought a new PC.

]]> By: dragonmouth https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/#comment-132368 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:13:45 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/?update=20251230#comment-132368 “1. Turn the PC into a High Security Device for Sensitive Tasks”
Not Really. IF you could make the O/S you install on it “more secure” then why don’t you make your current PC more secure? No matter what O/S you install, Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS, it will still have the same flaws and exploits. Ex. Since Windows is closed source and proprietary, you don’ know what backdoors M$ designed into it.

The only way to make a PC “more secure” is to air-gap it and even then it is vulnerable to having an external device plugged into it.

“you can turn up security on it to the max and only use it for sensitive tasks like online banking, managing cryptocurrency, accessing a sensitive enterprise system”
You’re forgetting that there are TWO ends to each “sensitive” transaction. Your end may be secure to the max but, if the security on the other end has flaws, then the transaction IS NOT secure. Most, if not all, data breaches occur in the corporate world. YOU have absolutely NO influence over corporate security.

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