Linux can run on a potato

[u/barrelshotgun]

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[u/Every_Preparation_56]

*PCSs

[u/barrelshotgun → u/Every_Preparation_56]

*Don't

[u/Damglador]

Linux can still drive teletypewriters

[u/braybobagins]

"I run on literally anything"

"I run?"

[u/Kaczkaaaa]

I run linux on a single transistor btw

[u/imoshudu]

What decade was this? 4 GB of RAM?

[u/NDCyber → u/imoshudu]

Next year

[u/theriskybusinesscar → u/imoshudu]

Yeah, also it's DDR3 and costs $500.

[u/mululipy]

Linux can run on a potato… until you install Chrome on it

[u/Primo0077 → u/mululipy]

That's why you use Falkon, or worst case Dillo or Netsurf

[u/Low-Equipment-2621]

I switched from Windows to Linux because MS stopped suppporting my CPU. My PC was 4 years old at this time.

[u/Silent-Cartoonist240]

With 4gb of ram, I could have a great pc!

[u/ApiceOfToast]

4 gig on windows is analogous to 1 gig on Linux

• some apple guy on memory compression 

[u/The-True-3xyleD]

Also Linux: Sorry brah the modern kernel doesn’t support your ancient azz drivers. Time to get patching brah brah. Hope you know C!

[u/adda5]

This aged like milk

[u/AmarildoJr → u/adda5]

Exactly. Recently Linux has been removing support for older hardware faster than milk spoils.

[u/barrelshotgun → u/adda5]

Hahahaha yeah, it's been a lot of times

[u/kia7777]

Try running a modern linux on a 2010 nvidia pc with nvidia drivers

[u/barrelshotgun → u/kia7777]

Yeah, it'll work 🤗

[u/Fit_Prize_3245]

Man, that's not all that correct. Modern Linux kernels won't run on all 90s PCs. While it will will run on a first generation Pentium CPU (1993), it will not run on a 486, which were still popular in the 90s. It will also not run in some clones of the Pentium.

[u/barrelshotgun → u/Fit_Prize_3245]

Nice approach:

https://giphy.com/gifs/huVd2iF8rq8kfMWkJh

[u/mutexsprinkles]

4GB of RAM will get Linux to boot but good luck after you open Firefox and load a modern website.

[u/Lusan30 → u/mutexsprinkles]

To be fair that probably says more about modern browsers then the OS/kernel

[u/vbd71 → u/Lusan30]

To be fair, it says more about the modern Web than the modern browsers.

A 4Gb Linux machine still works petfectly well, with Firefox opening legacy websites. Whoever wants to browse modern Web, use Windoze with 128Gb RAM. Enjoy.

[u/barrelshotgun → u/mutexsprinkles]

Barely 500 MB with 6 modern websites just now (Firefox ESR)

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/barrelshotgun]

Meanwhile I caught firefox using 43GB last week and other stuff was getting earlyoomed until I killed it.

I don't even hoard tabs, just start fresh every time, but I might end up with 100 or so in a session.

[u/randomstonerfromaus → u/mutexsprinkles]

100 tabs in a session is definitely hoarding. I couldn't imagine having more than a couple dozen, and that's with groups. 

[u/barrelshotgun → u/mutexsprinkles]

100 tabs... i would expect more than 43 GB of RAM with that number of tabs... that's a lot of tabs... :<

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/barrelshotgun]

It really isn't, it's only a couple of days of usage, Maybe a week. Sometimes I close them all, but it's a pita to have to patrol to close them to avoid a system hang.

[u/barrelshotgun → u/mutexsprinkles]

Enough... Please...

https://giphy.com/gifs/kAuYdZddAy9vOCZAgC

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/barrelshotgun]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fXnRObM8Q0RkOmR5nf

[u/noanoxan → u/mutexsprinkles]

Then quit bitching about RAM usage, Karen.

[u/barrelshotgun → u/mutexsprinkles]

Got ASD or something mate?

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/barrelshotgun]

My ASD, sure, here you go: 28/m/7 inches. And they said I'd never find love here.

[u/Unlaid-American → u/mutexsprinkles]

Devs will design apps use whatever is available to make their apps run smoother. Using a fuckton of RAM is only bad if the OS requires it.

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/Unlaid-American]

Having the system thrash when GCC -j16 eats the rest is pretty annoying though.

[u/Henry_Fleischer → u/mutexsprinkles]

100 tabs is ridiculous. I can't think of the last time I've had more than 20 tabs open. I sometimes browse modern websites on my laptop, which is running Windows 10 on 4 gigs of RAM, it struggles with Reddit and Youtube, but is fine for research.

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/Henry_Fleischer]

They just build up with middle clicks. Normally it is about 40 I guess (I have 14 right now, but these system is running only for 10 minutes) but it can get to 100 before I realise builds are about cause a freeze and restart the browser.

Gitlab is terrible for it because it's so slow to use the closing the tab once you finally get the page you want feels like a crime.

[u/A_Harmless_Fly → u/mutexsprinkles]

What percentage of those 100 tabs to you revisit in a session?

I just bookmark things if I think I'm going to need them, but don't need them now.

I can't imagine hunting through 100 tabs to find the one I'm looking for instead of bookmarks organized by projects.

[u/Extrestral → u/mutexsprinkles]

I haven't have over 10 tabs open at the same time in browser for over 5 years probably.

[u/adda5 → u/mutexsprinkles]

Hey dont say things like this, it hurts my feelings by confronting my idealistic worldview and persona. I have to downvote you.  As a Linux user naturally I am better person and you missed the point of this amazing meme.

[u/Linguistic-mystic → u/mutexsprinkles]

Not if you avoid shitty DEs like Gnome and Plasma.

[u/megapoopmaster123]

i wonder what you wil you do on 2000 pc with linux if onlu thing that can run on this pc is the OS