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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice
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Linux runs just fine in 4. Or much less. It depends a lot on what you use it for. My 486 had a whooping 32 Megs of memory and ran Linux just fine.
Regarding MS, the main problem is the changing of the goalpost. And I'm not so sure there's even any point to the whole TPM thing anyway.
Well if we're going to just talk about the kernel with 1-2 embedded apps, sure.
or if you're going back to 1990 yes, applications back then we're less demanding than chrome. However that was 35 years ago.
But this article isn't about your little nxp chip or the much weaker 486 chip, it's about laptops humans are using with like...modern web browsers. Which will happily eat 10 gb of ram if you let them. And then Linux will shit the bed and lock up the moment you're out of swap or zram.
I have no idea what you mean by moving goalposts.
The TPM attitude is common among Linux fanboys and I don't really get it. It's a chip for making security simpler for the average user. If you're worried about laptops getting trashed because users won't install Linux, the tpm chip is for them. Also it's over a decade old.