Or support for 64GB ram on the Skylake ; or wanting the newer GPU 5-10 years down the road. Yes, many reasons to get a Skylake. If you do want fastest CPU and fastest integrated GPU, Broadwell it is.

Skylake has same CPU performance, and slower GPU (no eDRAM). And version 1.0 motherboards.
Your advice is sound, but mostly if you don't need/care about the GPU or if you want new features like hdmi 2.0 and h265 decoder

The most relevant things I hid is the login (had my username displayed, btw irssi the IRC client leaks your username by default!) and the fact I downloaded a localized version. The previous time, I even donwloaded current win32 firefox!, not i686 linux ESR.

I just assumed 550 errors are issued when there are traffic spikes. Or just the filter of not getting an en-US version, combined with not many people using the ftp server in the first place do the trick (I don't think any 20-year-old knows what's an ftp these days.)

Many just want some PC to do audio, photo or video, or perhaps some other uses while still running "light" games (be it any blizzard or valve ones, or some stuff where being compatible and not CPU/RAM starved is well good enough)

Within some parameters (perhaps moreso with i5 5675C), the CPU has its merits. No need to spend cash, size and weight on PSU and cooling either. Yes you can buy a 125W CPU and a 200W graphics card instead (going to the other extreme)
The elephant in the room is a $40 Celeron or a $50 AMD are über powerful for most people that don't run Crysis or video editing.

What a shame that we're both modded Troll! Please.
At this point it's blatant naked moderation abuse. And we're just arguing about boring technical and business issues.

Drivers can be related to security; even graphics ones. Usual bullshit like sending specially crafted/malformed data to then execute something arbitrary can possibly happen.
A better answer would be "LTS drivers" that receive security updates (and some compatibility updates) and that does exist, but it's the legacy drivers. e.g. 30x.xx for geforce 6/7 hardware.

Thought experiment : what if Microsoft had done a linux based version of Windows? (ignoring Metro/RT/Windows 10). You sort of have that with Wine. MS would make its own similar implementation, port or create a new graphical stack (no X11), add customizations to the linux kernel, use Windows Update as a "package manager", get Microsoft Internet Explorer to run, get strong and long term driver support from hardware manufacturers, have a sudo that only requires to click "Yes".

Then everyone would target it and it'd be as bad as before.
Not sure if desktop linux (GNU/linux) is that better, or if it's just a combination of low use and fragmentation. But it's clearly not the same OS as Android or the thought-experiment "Windows/Linux".

People use the browser as a music player now.

From comments in TFA's page, the update for Tegra Note 7 has been released simultaneously as this one.

I wonder if it's even due to finding out Android 5.0 sucked, and they didn't want to inflict it on you. Or just greed, lack of budget.

Sadly as it is, they upgrading the OS on a mobile product from 2013 puts them on a short list of brands updating their crap.

These computers don't have encryption, networking, security, html standards, online services, youtube API or even drivers to worry about.

With all these issues, a computer "appliance" from the 2000s can be rendered useless, hell you might have more chance using a PC from 1991 to browse the web with a reasonably recent DOS version of Lynx (albeit without many features)

It's a trap to make you create an account*. I can imagine installing Windows 8 or 10 if needed but creating an account to run a desktop OS is something offensive. It's like showing your papers to a police officer every time you want to use a computer.
Also why I don't care much about upgrading my PC to run more Steam linux games.

*though per above theverge.com article, Solitaire is back as a built-in but Hearts is still on the store.

I did it with ftp.mozilla.org , I didn't think or knew about using releases.mozilla.org. I seem to remember ftp.mozilla.org did not work a few years ago but maybe they changed their mind :)

My useless log, from a trial :

The problem with VLC is just this one. "To view this porn video, download Fake_VLC_Media_PLayer.exe".
Or the totem plugin is launched (on a linux desktop) which is slow, crashy, doesn't work and makes the whole screen blank for an instant on loading.

There was a short window in time where I got WMV streaming working (instead of "windows media player failed to download the codec"). That was back when you downloaded codecs to watch video, and so there was that .exe file from Microsoft you could download to read WMV9 video files on Windows 98, which happened to enable streaming to work too. So there was video playing in the browser, which you could full screen and it plays perfectly smooth on a Celeron 500MHz!

4 years ago or so, I played a Silverlight video (never did again), which was some kind of Microsoft PR, don't ask me what or why. It lead me to a simple page for installing the linux version of the plug-in, which was very easily done. Then the video was smooth, flawless and with the then new feature of changing the stream depending on bandwith. But Silverlight did not catch on, because of Flash's 99% market share.

So, Microsoft solved web video twice! Though WMV wasn't a great solution (need compatible player, codec and plugin for the player)
Real Player worked too, before they did the redesign and went full on crapware.

It's worse if you don't install the fixes and end up running malware.

Nice system still, you could change thermal paste, upgrade the heatsink or fan(s), and/or even downgrade to a dual core CPU lol.