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

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    1 小时前

    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.
  • kalpol@lemmy.world
    8·
    15 小时前

    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.

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 小时前

      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

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    20 小时前

    Mac requirement: thin metal laptop made by apple

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

    Linux: motherboard (optional)

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    18·
    24 小时前

    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.

    • BonerMan@ani.socialOP
      9·
      24 小时前

      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.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        2 小时前

        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

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      37·
      22 小时前

      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.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    211·
    1 天前

    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
      3·
      22 小时前

      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

  • RippleEffect@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    22 小时前

    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.

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      20 小时前

      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 )

      • RippleEffect@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        22 小时前

        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.

    • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      20 小时前

      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.

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
    46·
    1 天前

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

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      1 天前

      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·
      1 天前

      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·
      1 天前

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

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    22 小时前

    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

    • A7thStone@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 小时前

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

    • Ignotum@lemmy.world
      463·
      2 天前

      A pile of money on fire

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

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        33·
        1 天前

        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
          61·
          1 天前

          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.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 天前

      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.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 小时前

        No joke I read an article a while ago about a computer cafe in like Nepal I think it was? where users had to pedal a small DC generator to power the computers because power is so scarce up on the mountain

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 天前

        (Oh, I assumed pictured was a potato CPU, not potato PSU)

        Anyways, as long as you don’t make the mistake of using runny ((s)mashed) potatoes, it should be fairly ez.

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
    120·
    2 天前

    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
        9·
        1 天前

        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.