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I'm old enough to have clustered some 16 desktop PCs using openMOSIX a long time ago, before the era of multiple cores and threads.
The whole cluster would function like a single Linux system, automatically spreading the work between nodes.
I used it to run SETI@Home for a bit of fun.
It was a neat idea, but never went mainstream. Soon single PCs were powerful enough to run virtual machines and be partitioned instead of clustered.
Now software bloat has caught up to the gains we've made in hardware and we're back to it taking 15 seconds to load a word processor.
Bloody got a new Windows 11 lenovo something today. It's so slow to just open settings up.
I know the Windows vs Linux thing is like beating a dead horse, but I use both, and the Linux machine never gets slow like Windows does. Windows does so much crap in the background that you and I don't need want or care about, and Linux just does what it's told when it's told. Give it a try if you're feeling adventurous.
Yeah, I'm in the planning stage of buying a new personal desktop that I'm going to run Linux on from the get go, I'm just tired of Windows.
Once I'm a little more financial I'm going to pull the trigger and build my next gaming pc