• Robin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

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    8 months ago

    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

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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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      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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        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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    8 months ago

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

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      8 months ago

      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

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    I revived a friend’s old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of “nerd creds”. Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!