I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.
Potato optional
[Children of the Omnissiah plays]
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.
(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.
Have you ever tried Linux on photosynthesis?
That sounds like it runs Mint, or genetically modified SUSE.
Mac requirement: thin metal laptop made by apple
Windows requirement: fart instruction for cpu only for 58gen bintel
Linux: motherboard (optional)
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.
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
This is the old one that supportsb1 GB max :D Came with 512mb as I recall
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.
This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”.
How are you holding up?
Because I am a potato
Its hard to overstate my satisfaction
It’s hard to over-state my satisfaction
Aperture Science, we do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us; except the ones who are dead :(
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.
Missed opportunity to make trashcan joke about macos.
Trashcan Mac is good tho, as compact and quiet Linux machine it is
They’re almost down to a price where I’d consider picking one up just because I think they look awesome, and are reasonably easy to max out their spec. Trouble is, that maxed out spec might tip its benchmarks over my M2 Macbook. Might.
Xeon 2696v3 is good with it’s 18 core 36 threads, this cpu cost around 45$ on AliExpress too, also top up 128gb ram and it’ll be great homeserver
Out of interest, I just looked up the actual benchmark scores.
A ‘13 Pro with a Xeon 2697v2 scores 4891 on multi core
My 15” M2 MacBook Air scores 9735 on the same.
It’s astonishing how much Apple leapt ahead when the M-series chips dropped. Sure, the Intel machines on macOS still have their uses, (I’m typing this on a 2014 Mac mini that I use for work), but Apple have done an incredible job of flooding the market with solid hardware to install Linux on.
Hey guys, check out my new mobile Linux rig
Points to gum stuck to bottom of his shoe
boots
Your username sickens me.
Hey, the Optimus 7 was great at its time!
Be gone Windows man, BE GONE FROM ME
I use Fedora btw if that brings you peace
Fuck, I remember my windows phone now. Live tiles are better than any modern phones ui.
I would install Linux on it
Every former windows phone user I have ever talked to has sworn up and down about how amazing of a platform it was. I honestly suspect Microsoft could have legitimately won a sizable slice of the mobile market if they simply chose a different name than “windows phone”
But then, this is the same company which held a mock funeral for the iPhone upon the launch of the Windows phone so…uh…yeah that actually happened…
Not to dissect a meme too hard but I’m pretty sure the ram is supposed to go pins down into the potato.
Lightweight distros need less than 1GB of RAM, so you don’t need to use the entire RAM.
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.
Yup, but once you do that, it’ll run Linux just fine.
There are some in the potatoe.
I have Linux (OpenWRT) running on a router with 64MB RAM and 16MB of flash storage. And it works flawlessy. Also have Linux on a second WiFi router, my TV (LG WebOS), one phone, a laptop and a computer. (And I forgot about the Raspberry Pi and the VPS.)
Yeah but those are specifically designed for this. Linux Mint 22 isn’t designed to run with what is basically nothing nowadays.
Meh. You’re right… However… Most things will run either Doom or Linux (or both). And nobody cares whether they have been designed to do it, or not. 🐧
(Optional)
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.
Ah, I see Linux supports breadboards now!
Nah sadly thats a potato custom. The generic breadboard isn’t supported yet due to problems with the closed source of the chipset.
I does if you have a supported architecture with a MMU
macOS is a UNIX OS and is far better than Windows on resource management.
Nope, you can run winass on worse Mashines than mac, however i still think its incredibly wasteful with resources, but its both of them.
I just recently did this test on an old MacBook Pro 2011 and installed Windows 10, Pop, and macOS in succession. Windows ran like ass and Pop and macOS ran about the same (fine). Settled on Pop for better Steam compatibility. Trust me, Windows is uniquely bad.
Windows runs like ass on the Mx Chips in general.
Apple Software runs good on Apple hardware, yes its way better optimized and made for each other than the Microsoft surface products for example. Doesn’t mean Apple Software runs resource efficiently in general.
But don’t get me wrong, i hate windows more than Apple software, but thats mostly because im forced to work with windows.
The 2011 MacBooks were still Intel. Mine’s an i7.
You’ve clearly never run hackintosh. MacOS runs better than Windows even on PCs not made by Apple. The difference is especially obvious on Laptops, where MacOS gets almost as much battery life as Linux, whilst Windows barely gets about 2/3rds as much
The problem is that Apple doesn’t seem to care. They willy nilly change things and restrict basic functions with zero regard for those who want to support or develop for there platforms.
What Apple does with iOS and macOS developers is straight up extortion.
The same thing with the desktop. They make major changes without telling a sole. Then the loyal Apple fans blame the developers.
Sure, but you can’t run it on anything but Apple hardware
As if Apple would give you all that
No, thats why its the requirements.
They give you the laptop underneath but at the price of 90% the PC, but really good looking. If you want more, throw it in the trash and buy new.
No really I dont think MacOS has big requirements, it simply doesnt officially support most PCs.
Its just not actually running on most chipsets on purpose so you need a translation layer wich requires a pretty buff PC. It runs well on apple hardware, however its designed for each other. But from what i know it does use more CPU Power than windows, windows is more RAM intensiv than mac as of my last knowledge as well.
No idea, their laptops are silent since a long time while using i7 or even i9 CPUs. They are hella good at optimization I think.
Well, I guess I will have to install Hackintosh on my Chromebook and see XD
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