You could probably get Linux to run on a decently close friendship and a stack of paper.
Only win 11 home needs internet.
Comfortably runs on electronic thermometer or pregnancy test.
Linux 🤝 DOOM
it actually did not run on the pregnancy test, just outputting on it’s display. something else was computing
for now
be alpine linux
copy bootloader from the installer to ESP usb drive
load entire OS from bootloader to RAM
lbu commit, save changes to bootloader
378mb fully loaded to RAM
Linux. Hard disk optional.
I’ll take the computer on the right to the car wash and pressure wash it, then go find an air compressor to quickly dry it out.
Sure it might need a new fan and perhaps hard drive and other mechanical parts, but that looks almost totally salvageable.
Fun fact: Linux can actually run on faulty RAM, if you configure the kernel to just avoid the bad RAM regions.
Linux doesn’t actually need any functional components to run; if you put on enough pairs of programming socks and take some psychedelics you can simply sit in front of a blank screen and hallucinate a fully functional Linux distro!
How slow would that windows box be with the minimum specs? That seems like it would be a nightmare.
Linux on the other hand will run on anything and it’s glorious!
i have a laptop here with a gemini lake celeron n4000, 4gb ram, and 64gb emmc. it barely meets the requirements imposed by microsoft for win11.
windows 11 on it is as horrible as you might imagine. someone brought me one very similar last week to ‘fix’… basically same model but with upgrade to 16gb ram. was not any better at all. essentially unusable, just like mine. their ‘fix’ was buying a new ryzen 5 laptop 12 hrs later.
If you just let it run idle, it runs great! /s
Fr I had a computer with those specs 15 years ago wtf are they thinking lol
of all that shit microsoft forces upon you…
it’s the msa (online microsoft account) that’s the biggest deal-breaker for me.
absolutely not. never gonna happen.
I got doom eternal a month or so ago and haven’t gotten around to playing it. Now that I’ve tried it I realized that there’s a mandatory Bethesda account creation screen unless you don’t have an Internet connection. I’ve been turning the Wi-Fi off on my Steam Deck or pulling the ethernet on my desktop to get by that.
I have Debian running on an ARM board that has 256MB RAM. Handles Audio and 720/video streaming without having to use swap.
I’m not using swap on my work and gaming PCs > 10 years now. I first started to question I need it, when I got a new PC going from 512MB to 2GB. Now I have 20GB in one of them and I don’t think I will ever be able to fill it all up until I get an upgrade again.
Good for you, I have 32g and if I do too many things at once, the oom killer will stalk my tabs
😯 how many tabs did you open?
That’s amazing. Mind sharing more details?
Its a 2010 IOMega Home media hard drive, with OEM OS wiped off, and Debian imstalled. 32 bit armv6 board. Since it only has 256Mb the 3.12 kernel is the latest that would install, newer give errors about size, so I have it blocked from internet access. But you can see from the screen capture that once running is barely takes up 30% of that 256MB. Music streaming was my last use, previously was movie streaming using twonky until we got a 4k TV. Image is a few months back when it wasrunning openmediavault but I built a new server recently and this might just become a ups monitor or something. PS my date is wrong LOL 01 09 2025 vs 09 01 2025 I assume is what I did.
Windows 11 on 4GB of RAM? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
ok but can you run linux on a toaster
Of course, just make sure you paint a penguin on the side first.
You can run Linux on an esp32 using using a risc-v or pdp 11 emulator.
I’m curious. I just updated to Windows 11 because I got tired of the full-screen EOL IS COIIMING PANNIICC! messages. I also just moved. I will be plugging in my PC tonight and won’t have Internet until the day after tomorrow. I wonder if it’ll let me do anything.
If you upgraded an existing installation of Win 10 you should be fine, AFAIK the internet requirement is only for installing a new copy of Win 11.
That’s good to know. Thanks!
Yeee they removed the oobe (or whatever) skip account command which is just a script to create a reg key so you can do it yourself for now
This is pretty old. I had to use the way back to find it.
500 Error
I must have forgotten to copy the archived link. I updated it.
Why have you (or whoever you got the image from) rewritten what the Windows screenshot says but in red?
Makes it a whole lot easier to read
