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- memes@lemmy.ml
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- memes@lemmy.ml
linux requirements: thigh highs and a tiny blue pill
Anyone have Linux recommendations for x86 machines?
I installed MX Linux on my 32bit system with low specs and it runs fine
Has anyone tried getting linux to run on a mechanical computer?
Even this potato with 512MB of RAM runs a bunch of linux web services without issue.
You can easily run 2 of Windows Tiny11 builds on that.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/tiny11-run-windows-11-on-just-184-mb-of-ram.348835/
What weird forum is that? It looks like 90% of all posts, including the linked one, is written by ChatGPT.
Can’t say I’m overly happy having this ai slop linked here.
What’s more surprising to me, it seems to me that actual human users are also posting on that forum.
Technically M$ copilot.
Pretty cool. If there was something between this and standard bloated Win 11, I would love that. It took me forever to uninstall/block half of the garbage that comes with the OS. It’s gotten ridiculous. Tiny 11 sounds like it scrapes just a little too much.
Yeah, yeah, I have Linux on another machine, but there are a number of things that I’m not technically proficient enough to figure out on Linux. He’ll, I’m still struggling to get Jellyfin to work remotely.
Windows 11 LTSC can be downloaded and then activated with a script from the same source.
This might be the in-between version you’re looking for.
Remotely as in from another computer on the same network, or from another network? Cuz connecting from another network will take some extra steps (usually forwarding a port on your router). The Linux communities on here are pretty receptive to questions if you’re stuck, too
Both. I was pretty tired when I last checked. My initial YouTube search turned up a bunch of installing other apps. Setting a port number…sure, I can do that. Installing other apps and settings… That’s a headache.
I’ll make another attempt when I get the energy, but thanks for the direction.
Yeah but that will not give you anything useful… Also Tiny11 is x86 only afaik.
It would give you access to every single Windows application that has a 32-bit version.
Which for being 2025 is still a huge margin.
“I can’t handle typing like this anymore” and “I like pickles” are two sentences I could make out of the blurry text
Came here for this. Pickles are like a researcher’s??? Progeny? A researcher’s what? I must know.
Also something about Harry Potter in the first lines.
Edit. It’s grumpy! But I don’t know what!
It repeats. The same “have you ever read Harry Potter” is three lines from the bottom too.
It looks like it repeats every ~5.5 lines if you track the “OK, I can’t handle typing like this anymore.” which is easier to spot with the capital “OK”.
electricity (optional)
I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
If you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in world it wouldn’t be using electricity)
Technically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
Since you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
OK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal
Maybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
Ok just wait us Microsoft execs are going to pressure Trump to keep increasing tariffs on the penguins and when all of a sudden they need new suits for all the tween penguins ready to shed their adolescent coat we will see who comes out on top.
This is how you do business, penguins don’t know how to do business and we won’t let them have our AI so they can figure out how to either.
Trump tariffed penguins because he didn’t understand what Microsoft was talking about.
He probably heard the name McDonald Island, assumed that Ronald McDonald lives there, and chose to tariff the island so Ronald will give him special access to unlimited McDoubles for free.
No, this is our plan?
Here at Microsoft’s upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren’t kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.
In a head on match up, Windows always out perform birds, that is just the fiscal reality and it is only one of the reasons why we are a Fortune 5000 Golden Donald Edition Company!
edit you want proof? Why would hamas supporting Bird Fundamentalists a.k.a. “The Audobon Society” put out anti-Windows propaganda like this?
Window collisions are one of the leading direct human causes of bird mortality.
https://www.audubon.org/news/reducing-collisions-glass
what shameful slander
The radical fake green energy movement’s Windmills are the real enemies, Windows is completely harmless.
hahaha ooops did we let it slip we are gleefully profiting from genocide and are desperate to get in on the ground floor of using the veneer of tech hype to run cover for a genocide in any way we can?..yeah for some reason we can’t help but tell on ourselves oh well… as a rule nobody gets as rich as I am if they actually care about the consequences of their actions!
Saying penguins don’t know how to do business when all of them are wearing business suits 24/7 is a bold statement.
They even live on the continent with the least amount of debt and bankruptcies!
I genuinely, no sarcasm, feel that this was an excellent addition to the thread. You got a guffaw out of me with the first sentence.
Penguins are LITERALLY always flippant, they can’t be serious enough for a high powered surfboard room environments with extremely fancy custom keurig machines, besides we are Microsoft upper management…
a rare photo of a young adult Steve Ballmer, lucky someone through him back in the ocean… unless you are a penguin
The hard drive and monitor are broken, the fans are busted from experimentation with Half Life 2, but there will still always be
nethack
and
fortune | cowsay
Reminds me of this old article (surprised the site is still operating, also archive link)
LOA was the group that first installed Linux on a Shetland pony in 2003, but growing competition from other hacker groups have shut them out in the past five years.
I, too, like pickles.
Inaccurate. The Linux side should include a ton of wasted time trying to make 1 wifi card work or get stereo sound. Requirement = lots of pointless time.
Honestly, on my Fedora I have to fix things more rarely than in Windows 11. Granted, Linux troubleshooting is sometimes more time-consuming, but I haven’t met a single issue that would take hours to resolve in a long while. Ironically, my partner wasted about 6 hours recently getting Windows 11 to work with audio devices on a remote desktop client.
Still, we have to admit fixing some stuff in Linux is complicated enough to be outside the scope of regular everyday user.