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There goes my daily work driver. Surprisingly, it still works awesome with all lots of civil engineering softwares. 16GB DDR3 with an i7 4th Gen. There is no reason to discard it yet. Historically as soon as Microsoft dropped Win7, many of these software followed suit. This is the reason we had to abandon God number of PCs. This time out will be my PC as well than.

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But why discard the PC? It can run Windows 10 perfectly well.

Linux gives new life to old PCs and laptops. I've had great success with Lubuntu and Pop OS.

In my experience, engineering tools tend to not run well (or at all) on Linux, even with WINE. I don't mean SolidWorks and AutoCAD - programs like Compress, Caesar II, CFTurbo, MAGMA (not the CAS), Carrier HAP; in short, all those engineering tools you never hear the name of before you start working in the relevant industry.

I still game on a 4th gen i7 with 16GB of RAM. Windows 10, obviously, and I've upgraded the graphics card, but those are very solid machines.

I hope you weren't doing any work where you were authenticating anywhere. The reason to discard it (the software) would be years of unpatched security vulnerabilities. Upgrade to Windows 10 or Linux!

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