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

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    11 minutes ago

    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

  • RippleEffect@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    47 minutes ago

    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.

      • RippleEffect@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        18 minutes 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.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      11 minutes 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.

    • BonerMan@ani.socialOP
      4·
      2 hours ago

      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.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    3 hours ago

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

    • stetech@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 seconds ago

      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

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
    42·
    12 hours ago

    I think macOS and windows have to swapped 🤔 macyoS seems to run less bloat in background

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      4 hours ago

      Nah, the MacOS just has the wrong picture.

      It should be a specifically branded laptop, because as far as I know, it is impossible to run MacOS on anything other than an Apple branded computer.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      6·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah ddinitely needs image swap, or this meme would make more semse if it said $ instead of requirements. MacOS is unixy and doesn’t require super specs

    • RGB@lemmy.today
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Significantly less bloat for sure. I do like that there is the MicroWin project that exists for windows though.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      11·
      12 hours ago

      I looked into running potatoless ages ago and didn’t care for the tradeoffs that come with running hamster wheel. You have to change the potatoes every so often, but at least they don’t shit everywhere.

    • Ignotum@lemmy.world
      413·
      22 hours ago

      A pile of money on fire

      And then Apple refusing to repair it due to “water damage”

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        22·
        7 hours ago

        It’s funny people still think this, they just replaced nearly my entire M1 MacBook Pro that was completely fucked because of water damage. Literally everything but the display was replaced, I basically have a new computer at the cost of $300+whatever I paid for AppleCare+ when I bought it ($400, I think?), which is significantly cheaper than buying a new one would have been

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          4 hours ago

          Nice anecdote.

          Let me tell you an anecdote where I had to pay 620€ to repair the screen of one of their cheaper ipads. About the same price as a new one. Wasn’t even 3 years old.

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
    112·
    1 day ago

    Not to dissect a meme too hard but I’m pretty sure the ram is supposed to go pins down into the potato.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        6·
        9 hours ago

        It is amazing how little you need to have a functional system. I have a OpenMediaVault / minidlna server using NAS ARM board that only has 256MB of RAM, and it isn’t using all of it, and doesn’t need to swap.