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The internet is srs bzns.
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New favorite format
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Einstein Says is arguably a much better template.
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But what if we enjoy doing that?
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"It's just a joke" is such a tired excuse for being called out on your shitty opinions
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I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.
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I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this
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https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/mount.davfs.8.html mount cloud memory as folder and put swapfile on it
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Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod
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Yeah, never had a problem with incompatible hardware on Linux.
No siree, not a once!
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Did you ever had to buy a new laptop because Linux stopped supporting the current one?
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No but I am looking for a new laptop and this time I'll definitely spent more time checking Linux compatibility.
My previous thinkpad worked fine out of the box, but my current laptop is an HP Omen, that I mostly selected for the price to performance ratio. But I immediately learned that Linux compatibility sucked. Like not being able to boot an Ubuntu usb drive (without messing with the boot parameters).
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I did the opposite. After one of the big updates, Windows 10 decided it was no longer going to work with the Vista-era drivers for an old Core 2 Duo laptop. To be fair to Microsoft, was I pretty impressed when I initially installed Windows 10 and it accepted those ancient drivers without any complaints on a laptop that was 10 years old at that time.
So I instead installed Manjaro and everything worked just fine.
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This is not a problem with Linux, this is a problem with hardware manufacturers not making drivers for Linux.
Which is understandable, honestly. Making drivers is surely not an easy task. Targeting Windows covers the 80/20 rule.
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I just broke out into a cold sweat remembering trying to get wifi to function on my netbook back in 2k8.
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My friend, let me be that guy that says "that's nothing!". In 2002 (around kernel 2.14 I think it was) notebooks had no integrated wifi (at least not the second hand notebook I could afford, and it wasn't cheap anyway). I had to buy a cisco pmcia wifi card from across the world and recompile the kernel to include wifi support (and the driver of course). I don't remember why, but I remember that recompiling the kernel happened quite frequently. Maybe because I was distro hopping a lot or because there were quite (relatively speaking) kernel updates. Not good old days, but at least I learnt!
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Oh lord, the time I spent trying to get an Airport wifi card working on a dual-USB iBook in Slackware... shudder.
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My SMC network cards from the mid 90s are not supported 😭
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Someone gave me an 8 year old laptop to clear down. So I figured I'd swap in an SSD and put Linux on it.
Damn thing wouldn't even boot. Wasn't even that bad a spec machine. 6GB RAM should have been plenty. Shame really, was actually looking forward to seeing how far it had come in the last ten years or so.
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6gb ram is plenty, especially for a lightweight distro like antix or slax.
From AntiX:
It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 512MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. Installation to hard drive requires a minimum 7.0GB hard disk size.
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Winmodems and other cheap junk comes to mind.
But, apart from stuff made just for windows, what've you got?
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I haven't in a long while.
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Not true. For modern Linux you need a processor with a memory controller and 8mb of ram. If also need to be a processor from the 21 century.
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Openwrt beg to differ,
https://popovicu.com/posts/789-kb-linux-without-mmu-riscv/ here's guide for mmu less Linux and here's how it runs doom https://hackaday.com/2022/12/07/a-tiny-risc-v-emulator-runs-linux-with-no-mmu-and-yes-it-runs-doom/ -
At least pentiums are still supported. Who knows what all those IBM Thinkpad users are capable of if they weren't distracted.
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Not true. 20th century processors can run linux too
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Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?
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No it is not possible. For a more detailed explanation read here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/928308/is-it-possible-to-use-ubuntu-without-ram-at-all
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Btw. If you disable the Intel ME, TPM is nonfunctional.
Yay!
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you can disable intel ME?
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Yes, you just need a bios flasher (which is technically optional) and you can just flash the bios with the firmware version created by me_cleaner.
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Novacustom Laptop ;D
Awesome people, great work. The chassis is crap, very nice CPU and components though, overall I will be happy with it as a thinkpad replacement.
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How did you do it on the 9th and 10th generation processors?
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3mdeb.com, no idea how they do it
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optional CPU?
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Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.
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Wow, now that is literally insane and super awesome at the same time lol
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Holy hell I need a shower.
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Okay now that is totally crazy!
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I expected to see minecraft
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Theres good in this world, Mr Frodo. And its worth fightin' for.
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I've always wondered how a person without a brain behaves. Oh wait, they're dead.
At least computers without CPUs can still compute as long as it's Linux.
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A processor and ram is merely "recommended specs"
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You can use windows 11 without TPM. It's just not made easy for casual users.
I know this is linuxmemes and that this will be an unpopular opinion, but a lot of the complaints about windows I see linux users make, are based on a lack of knowledge. Sure, MS doesn't make it particularly easy, but linux isn't always particularly easy to install or get working well for casual users either. Whether it's linux or windows, a quick google goes a long way to solving most issues.
I'm behind the idea of GNU, but it's weird how so many linux memes could easily be turned into equally ill informed pro-MS memes. Obviously, MS isn't a nice company and I don't think anyone's a genuine MS fanboy, but still.
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There are, in effect, hacks to get around the requirement. That is not the same thing as it not being required. You manage to get Windows 11 installed on a system without TPM, you're not in a supported configuration and could at any time find yourself locked out of updates or even your system, and it'll likely at least be a cat and mouse game.
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There are also ways to get around nvidia cards without good linux drivers or laptops with unsupported wifi cards.
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Yep I know You can run Window 11 without TPM I even installed it once but here we are talking about recommended requirement(You just need a decent CPU on Linux)
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I don't agree the fact there is workaround mivroaoft's bs doesn't mean that it is supported.
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The same thing can be said about plenty of configurations and linux. Plenty of laptops or the wrong nvidia card, and you're likely to have to find a workaround too.
Hell, bypassing the TPM requirement is almost certainly easier than creating your own driver for an nvidia card or problemsolving wifi issues because your laptop's network card manufacturer doesn't give a fuck about linux users.
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it's weird how so many linux memes could easily be turned into equally ill informed pro-MS memes
Like the one where Linus is getting telemetry from your machines and putting security at risk with essentially a C&C ping waiting for instructions.
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No, that's a genuinely good and well informed reason to not use windows.
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I don't need 8K anything on mine
