My development paradigm

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Now, considering my former post, what then is my own, at least initial, identification as a candidate programmer?

I got two general, driving, principles:
- I want to use the oldest hard- and software that can still be used for modern daily computing. I am not focused on retro computing as a museum thing. I want to resist the modern mindless wasteful consumerism that comes forth from capitalism's insatiable hunger for profits and which disrespects the endless effort, creativity and value of the past.
- I want freedom and independence. I do not want corporations nor governments to interfere with my computing

Practically these principles translate as follows:

I want
- to use operating systems that allow full control over hard- and software
- to use operating systems that allow freedom from interference of corporations & government
- to re-use and rehabilitate older, disbanded, hard- and software from 1999 to 2009, for modern computing
- compatibility with Windows games and programs from 1999 to 2009
- compatibility with modern internet, which is THE bottleneck for backward compatibility

From this results that I want to do:
C development on Windows XP + Linux
on computer hardware produced from 1999 to 2009, with the following specs:
x86 32 bit multi-core CPU architecture with 4GB RAM.