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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.
Mac requirement: thin metal laptop made by apple
Windows requirement: fart instruction for cpu only for 58gen bintel
Linux: motherboard (optional)
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.
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 )
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.
omg I have one of those too! it doesn't get much use because it's.. well you have one
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I think macos is much less bloated than windows tho it only runs on apple devices(without trickery). Windows is absolutely horrible on resources.
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
Just because it's a desktop doesn't mean it's more powerful.
Mac OS should be a solid aluminum cube
I would say netbsd is more of the potato. Linux needs at least 6mb of ram to be useful.
Found the vega-uh, BSD nut at the party.
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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i love how the ram is connected to the potato, standing straight :) pardon my english
Yeah it's just jabbed in end first at the scientifically most chaotic angle.
It must have been a mix-up between "component name" and "how to install".
Yes. It was RAMmed for sure.
I think macOS and windows have to swapped 🤔 macyoS seems to run less bloat in background
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.
Introducing the (dying) Hackintos)
I still hope to be surprised and see some madlad on youtube installing macOS on PC+copilot PCs (what a dump name, lol)
You can just call them Arm PCs.
Yea, but I was explicitly meaning those not just arm 😇 others would be too easy 😂 /s
Hackintos is installing Windows or Linux on a Mac, it is not the other way around.
Never heard of it that way. Why would it be called a hack when Mac OS supports dual booting natively? In my experience it was always about finding drivers that could support hardware not built by apple.
No it isn’t
It's not impossible. Just annoyingly difficult.
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
😁macOS is even more Unix than linux (BSD kernel)
Sure but they pay for unix certification even though some isn't so unix...thus they y I added.
Linux is like Unix and MacOs is (a) Unix system