• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    256·
    1 day ago

    Full Linux system requirements:

    • Electricity: optional
    • Processor: Ideal
    • Blahaj: full sized ideal (smallhaj is ok)
    • Socks: thigh highs
    • Skirt: spinny
    • Breast Mints (good girl juice): self explanatory
    • Additional requirements: :3
  • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Forgot a requirement: must be willing to RTFM. Other than that, it’s still way less requirements.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      6·
      5 hours ago

      I feel old…when I was learning how to run Linux I started with an old 386 (maybe 486?) my dad wasn’t using. I think it had 32MB RAM, which was fancy for those machines.

      We had dial up at the time, so only one machine could be on the Internet. So, I set up a modem on the x86, plugged into an Ethernet hub (switch?), and learned enough ipchains (this was before iptables) to share a connection. It also ran Samba, an AFP server, and probably FTP and HTTP (just for local access) — but it worked for filesharing.

      It could also run MP3 streaming software which amused me because the machine itself was too slow to decode MP3 (but that’s not necessary to stream).

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        1 day ago

        I’ve tried tiny11 3 times on 2 different laptops. Both were alright resources wise, but still worse than any Linux distro I’ve tried. After you install some stuff and get forced into the automatic updates, it bloats up fast and slows down drastically, and then just becomes standard windows 11.

        If you use only the basic built in windows apps, which doesn’t even include edge of the app store, and you use it without internet, sure, you can use it well on very low specs, but even on a moderately spec computer, it’ll still slow down if you use it like the average person.

      • Metz@lemmy.world
        491·
        2 days ago

        What weird forum is that? It looks like 90% of all posts, including the linked one, is written by ChatGPT.

        Can’t say I’m overly happy having this ai slop linked here.

      • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
        151·
        2 days ago

        Pretty cool. If there was something between this and standard bloated Win 11, I would love that. It took me forever to uninstall/block half of the garbage that comes with the OS. It’s gotten ridiculous. Tiny 11 sounds like it scrapes just a little too much.

        Yeah, yeah, I have Linux on another machine, but there are a number of things that I’m not technically proficient enough to figure out on Linux. He’ll, I’m still struggling to get Jellyfin to work remotely.

        • felsiq@lemmy.zip
          4·
          2 days ago

          Remotely as in from another computer on the same network, or from another network? Cuz connecting from another network will take some extra steps (usually forwarding a port on your router). The Linux communities on here are pretty receptive to questions if you’re stuck, too

          • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Both. I was pretty tired when I last checked. My initial YouTube search turned up a bunch of installing other apps. Setting a port number…sure, I can do that. Installing other apps and settings… That’s a headache.

            I’ll make another attempt when I get the energy, but thanks for the direction.

            • felsiq@lemmy.zip
              2·
              1 day ago

              The other apps (probably sonarr/radarr/jellyseer?) are for downloading content, for watching what you already have jellyfin alone will do the job. The only other one you might want is an avahi client, so that on the local network you can connect with [pc’s name].local:8096 instead of 192.168.0.whatever:8096.
              Usually for jellyfin alone its enough to install it (from apt, assuming you’re on a Debian based distro), make it auto start with sudo systemctl enable jellyfin, and then turn it on with sudo systemctl start jellyfin. That should be enough to see it running from your local network, although you might have to use your local ip if avahi isn’t on.
              Anyway no pressure to jump back into troubleshooting this, just wanted to say it so you don’t feel like whatever programs youtube was recommending are mandatory.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          It would give you access to every single Windows application that has a 32-bit version.

          Which for being 2025 is still a huge margin.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    electricity (optional)

    I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    471·
    2 days ago

    Ok just wait us Microsoft execs are going to pressure Trump to keep increasing tariffs on the penguins and when all of a sudden they need new suits for all the tween penguins ready to shed their adolescent coat we will see who comes out on top.

    This is how you do business, penguins don’t know how to do business and we won’t let them have our AI so they can figure out how to either.

      • Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca
        161·
        2 days ago

        He probably heard the name McDonald Island, assumed that Ronald McDonald lives there, and chose to tariff the island so Ronald will give him special access to unlimited McDoubles for free.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        2 days ago

        No, this is our plan?

        Here at Microsoft’s upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren’t kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.

        In a head on match up, Windows always out perform birds, that is just the fiscal reality and it is only one of the reasons why we are a Fortune 5000 Golden Donald Edition Company!

        edit you want proof? Why would hamas supporting Bird Fundamentalists a.k.a. “The Audobon Society” put out anti-Windows propaganda like this?

        Window collisions are one of the leading direct human causes of bird mortality.

        https://www.audubon.org/news/reducing-collisions-glass

        what shameful slander

        The radical fake green energy movement’s Windmills are the real enemies, Windows is completely harmless.

        hahaha ooops did we let it slip we are gleefully profiting from genocide and are desperate to get in on the ground floor of using the veneer of tech hype to run cover for a genocide in any way we can?..yeah for some reason we can’t help but tell on ourselves oh well… as a rule nobody gets as rich as I am if they actually care about the consequences of their actions!

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Saying penguins don’t know how to do business when all of them are wearing business suits 24/7 is a bold statement.

      They even live on the continent with the least amount of debt and bankruptcies!

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        I genuinely, no sarcasm, feel that this was an excellent addition to the thread. You got a guffaw out of me with the first sentence.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 days ago

        Penguins are LITERALLY always flippant, they can’t be serious enough for a high powered surfboard room environments with extremely fancy custom keurig machines, besides we are Microsoft upper management…

        a rare photo of a young adult Steve Ballmer, lucky someone through him back in the ocean… unless you are a penguin

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    2 days ago

    “I can’t handle typing like this anymore” and “I like pickles” are two sentences I could make out of the blurry text

    • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      Came here for this. Pickles are like a researcher’s??? Progeny? A researcher’s what? I must know.

      Also something about Harry Potter in the first lines.

      Edit. It’s grumpy! But I don’t know what!

      • topherclay@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        It repeats. The same “have you ever read Harry Potter” is three lines from the bottom too.

        It looks like it repeats every ~5.5 lines if you track the “OK, I can’t handle typing like this anymore.” which is easier to spot with the capital “OK”.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 days ago

    The hard drive and monitor are broken, the fans are busted from experimentation with Half Life 2, but there will still always be

    nethack

    and

    fortune | cowsay

  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Anyone have Linux recommendations for x86 machines?

    EDIT: Desktop editions of Linux.
    EDIT 2: 32 bit specifically. I thought x86 and 32 but we’re the same thing, but I was wrong.

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        Not all of them. Arch stopped supporting x86, you need to get a forked branch of it that isn’t officially supported. Ran into others that also didn’t have x86 support anymore either. Initially thought Linux Mint was in the same boat, but I just found out that they have a Debian version that has a 32 bit version. All of the downloads for Ubuntu Desktop however are only showing 64 bit editions.

        I guess I can narrow it down further. Editing my comment.

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          oh, you want a 32-bit version. should probably specify that. x86 is a big umbrella.

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              3·
              5 hours ago

              x86 starts with the 8086, which is 16 bit. AMD64, IA-64 and x86-64 are all both 64-bit and x86.

              when referring to specifically 32-bit x86 it’s common to use the terms i386 or IA-32, but i think just “32-bit x86” gets the point across more clearly. if you need more specificity, just mention which processor you have and people can figure it out from there.

  • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world
    917·
    2 days ago

    Inaccurate. The Linux side should include a ton of wasted time trying to make 1 wifi card work or get stereo sound. Requirement = lots of pointless time.

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      Had sound issues on windows too recently but sure lol. I guess linux and windows have more and more feature parity every day :p

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 day ago

        Same with me, a few years back, I completely gave up on trying to get my laptop’s audio drivers working since they periodically killed themselves for no apparent reason, and decided to just not use audio, even though the main thing I did was watch videos.

        I mean, for windows 11, I haven’t had many issues currently, only really the keyboard on my 4 year old dell malfunctioning, which then fixed itself after 3 hours.

        • juipeltje@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          For me it was a windows 11 update that caused my usb dac to just straight up not work. After finding an article about which update was causing it i could roll that update back and it wasn’t hard to fix, but still, according to the linux haters this stuff never happens on windows lol

    • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      Don’t be so disingenuous. The same shit happens on Windows. And there is no guarantee that your drivers will work between Windows versions.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      5·
      2 days ago

      Honestly, on my Fedora I have to fix things more rarely than in Windows 11. Granted, Linux troubleshooting is sometimes more time-consuming, but I haven’t met a single issue that would take hours to resolve in a long while. Ironically, my partner wasted about 6 hours recently getting Windows 11 to work with audio devices on a remote desktop client.

      Still, we have to admit fixing some stuff in Linux is complicated enough to be outside the scope of regular everyday user.