• Robin@lemmy.world
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    This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

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      I’ve seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I’d risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.

      When will EVs be jailbroken?

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      That’s nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence

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        There are people out there powering their PC with electricity … what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

        I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

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    I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

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    Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Linux.

    (Not my pic, but the same model.)

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    I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I’ve basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don’t need backed up but good to have a backup of.

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    Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

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        I’ve seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.

        None of them are very recent, so I don’t know how well ‘modern’ DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

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          I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn’t very fast or very usable, but I ran it.

          I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it’s way easier to connect it to the network.

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    Man I love Lubuntu, it’s such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.

    Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!

    And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users

    Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again

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      Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn’t fast but definitely usable.

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    Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

    Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once