Yes, there is planned obsolescence, but what about a lighter
and faster Linux ?
Now I am using Linux Mint, an Ubuntu derivative (which is not lighter and the
XFCE desktop was not very impressive), TinyME (managed finally to install on my
PC) and puppy Linux (which is amazingly fast, much, much faster than a freshly
installed Windows XP). I also installed Windows XP today to experiment on it
with some new browsers (some are quite impressive) and later with some viruses
in order to mess it up and then try to manually delete the virus files under
Windows and Linux.
One of my colleagues threw away a PC with a crashed Windows 98 and I am
running Damn Small Linux on it. I will also try Freedos with OpenGem on it.