• baatliwala@lemmy.world
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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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    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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    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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    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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    You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j

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