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When Win11 first released, the idiot I was (or maybe still am) decided to install it on my ancient laptop because it was the newest one. It had a 6th gen i3, 4GB of memory, and 128GB storage. Didn't have TPM 2.0, so I found a workaround (forgot what it was but I did) and when I installed it, it CHUGGED.

I even installed Unity on the thing because I liked game development, and when I tried to mouse click while it was running, it took a good half a minute to register (and I somehow put up with this for like a couple years). Even without Unity, I remember the battery life being a lot worse and simple apps took ages to load.

Once I got a new laptop and learned that Linux isn't voodoo computer magic and had a usable GUI, I installed Mint on my old laptop to try it out, and it was FAST. Gone were long load times. The battery at this point had completely died so it only powers on when connected to the wall, but the laptop felt like it was new again. The screen was still garbage so I wouldn't use it as my daily driver, I much prefer my current laptop. If I ever got a new laptop, I would definitely install Linux again. (honestly I'm just not bothered to re-setup everything on Linux and backup all my data and settings and such on my current laptop, don't think I have a thumb drive large enough to back up everything)

You'd have to settle for a very primitive WM to get a Linux system to run on those specs though, let alone less. KDE and Gnome both idle at about 5GB ram.

At this point run Linux in every device is already a meme.

You could probably get Linux to run on a decently close friendship and a stack of paper.

Comfortably runs on electronic thermometer or pregnancy test.

Linux 🤝 DOOM

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.

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 was just looking at that windows 11 list yesterday. My mother-in-law has a 7th gen i3.

She’s not eligible to get windows 11, but her computer works surprisingly quickly. Well it did after I removed 2 different antivirus programs from it.

But it’s fine for what she uses it for “Netflix”, maybe an occasional dock.

No, Microsoft, I’m not buying her a new computer for that. If ever, she’d just get an iPad.

My wife’s in favor of just letting the computer get infected if it gets infected since it’s just a Netflix machine.

I’m not here to debate whether that’s a good idea or not, but I’m here to say that this is what is going to happen for the majority of people.

I’ll probably end up putting Linux Mint on it if the WiFi card will play nice, but I expect that it will.

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.

Only win 11 home needs internet.

I have Debian running on an ARM board that has 256MB RAM. Handles Audio and 720/video streaming without having to use swap.

Windows 11 on 4GB of RAM? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...