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    I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Corrections:

    MacOS:

    • Featureless Apple™-branded oblong with 195% profit margin (support for 160% profit margin dropped in Apple™ Mac™OS™ 12.8.3.1.6.4 West Coast Yuppie Resort)
    • Devices no more than two years old
    • No pride, self-respect, personality, etc, except that provided by ownership of Apple™ products.

    For Windows:

    • CPU generation newer than an arbitrary, shifting and easily-bypassed watershed.
    • 1, 2, 4, 16 or 128GB of RAM, depends who you ask.
    • Windows License 😉
    • Copilot+ AI requires Microsoft CoPilot+ AI compatible Microsoft CoPilot+ AI CoProcessor+ and Microsoft CoPilot+ CoProcessor+ AI Microsoft CertificAItion+
    • A lack of awareness or interest in operating systems.

    For Linux:

    • Turing-completeness.
    • Memory, networking, inputs, outputs, power (optional).
    • Another computer to occasionally Google who 'initramfs' is and why he won't let you boot.
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I run Mint on an Acer Aspire One, 1 gig and an Atom, and it works fine. Slow and won't play videos of course but is usable for web stuff and email etc.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

    I run opensuse tumbleweed kde on the same laptop, I've put 8gb ram and 360gb ssd and wifi 6e ax210 hmw card in it and it works good as casual machine

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

    This is the old one that supportsb1 GB max :D Came with 512mb as I recall

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Mac requirement: thin metal laptop made by apple

    Windows requirement: fart instruction for cpu only for 58gen bintel

    Linux: motherboard (optional)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    It's a not thought, but Linux reqs are getting more elitist at a much faster rate.

    I hate having to discard working router gear because the fw got stale and maintainers basically say "that's, like, SO last-week" and wander off to play pogs or something

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    That's because everyone jumped in the ARM hype train, and are now figuring out how shit the platform really is.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I have an atom Asus transformer with 2gb of ram that can run but not much else. Any good 32 bit distros I can look into? Realistically I think much of the mainstream web browsers are becoming too heavy also, which is what I would primarily use and might be more of my problem.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    I've got 33bit Mint on an Aspire One, runs OK

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Antix offers a 32bit build and only uses about 100mbs of ram(and systemd free as well it uses sysvinit and runit uses window managers like icewm jwm instead of regular desktope nvironments )

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    Re the web browsers I think you're right. You may get away with a more lightweight browser like SeaMonkey or Falkon, maybe like 1 tab of Chromium lol

    Distros I'd try on that would be Linux Mint Debian Edition, Debian w/ lightweight DE like LXDE or Xfce, or Arch Linux 32 if you really want to make it minimalist. Gentoo if you're very adventurous but with my EEE PC I found compile times took up to days.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    omg I have one of those too! it doesn't get much use because it's.. well you have one

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    I know! It'd be great if it were a better sized SSD (not SD soldered) and more memory. The processor is sufficient so it feels like a waste.

    That said, I did use it in college so I did get use out of it.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

    Mac OS should be a solid aluminum cube

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Isn’t it windows 11 that is making a ton of hardware irrelevant due to extremely high system requirements? This meme is missing the mark.

    [–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

    1 ghz processor, 4 GB of ram. 4gb seems like a lot I suppose. I doubt we can find a tv/monitor that won't work with it either. Basically any laptop made in the last 15 years can run it. People just bitch about them wanting people to have tpm 2.0 to prevent others from being able to steal all your data easily.

    When it comes down to it, Microsoft will get sued if they don't prove they are trying to enhance security to protect peoples data. When they do so, they piss off consumers. Is there a better way to do it maybe, but we will always find something wrong with it. If you don't have tpm set up, the drive encrypted, and your password tied to a secondary factor, anyone can access any of the data on your drive in minutes.

    It has always been so, they have their product installed throughout enterprise systems where attacks on companies have been on the rise worldwide.

    The truth is you can build a computer for a fraction of what you were able to 10-20 years ago because system requirements have stayed fairly steady while tech growth continues.

    Buying a laptop for 179.99 dollars from BestBuy in the year 2000 would have been laughable.

    What can it run. What 95% of users need. Honestly desktops and laptops seem to me like they will both be phased out of most personal use and will just be for business use eventually. Our phones are getting more and more features making it so we can connect Bluetooth keyboards/mice and cast to a tvs/monitors with a desktop setup.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The actual system requirement is a TPM 2 chip for encryption (wich is bullshit and can be turned off with Rufus) for other system requirements it feels better optimized than win 10 but that might be a personal feeling.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    It's more than just a TPM requirement. They have actual processor requirements cutting off all 7th gen and older Intel processors and all 2nd gen? Ryzen and older AMD processors so that they can modernize instruction sets. Many perfectly capable if a bit old machines that have years of life left in them that will be going to the recycler who will attempt to extract something of value from these machines.

    I'm all for modernizing instruction sets and cutting off literal ewaste machines that nobody should still be using like the Core 2 Duo for example, but this is just going to produce mountains of ewaste, which is about the last thing we need with the looming climate apocalypse and dire need significantly reduce emissions rapidly

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I think macos is much less bloated than windows tho it only runs on apple devices(without trickery). Windows is absolutely horrible on resources.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Concur. I’d argue they should be flipped, even – Windows (11) needs way more in hardware in order to run fluidly AFAIK, whereas older Macbooks are supported for quite a long time

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    Just because it's a desktop doesn't mean it's more powerful.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I would say netbsd is more of the potato. Linux needs at least 6mb of ram to be useful.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Found the vega-uh, BSD nut at the party.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    I don't use BSD. However, Netbsd will literally run on anything. They have a VAX port and a Acorn64 port.

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