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Show threadStuart Longland (VK4MSL)May 16

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Windows 11 minimum requirements:
- x86-64 or (Qualcomm¹) ARM64 CPU made after 2016 (?²)
- 4GB RAM, 8GB+ strongly recommended unless you like waiting
- UEFI
- Secure Boot
- TPM 2.0 or later
- Broadband Internet with >10GB/month quota and at least 512kbps bandwidth
- Microsoft Account
- 64GB storage
- Valid license

Linux:
- 32-bit CPU with MMU³
- 4MB⁴ RAM, 2GB strongly recommended
- 2MB⁵ storage, 8GB strongly recommended

¹ AFAIK Microsoft has only licensed their OS for Qualcomm CPUs, but it has been convinced to run on Broadcom and Apple CPUs too. This is a legal constraint only, not a technical one.
² Windows 11 requires some cryptography instruction sets that only feature in newer CPUs… not entirely sure which generation
³ On x86: Intel 80386 was dropped a while back, 80486 and early 80586 will go in a future release… most x86 OSes require i686-class CPUs
⁴ haven't tried this in a very long time… 64MB may be a more practical lower limit for embedded devices, for a graphical desktop consider 512MB a bare minimum
⁵ only if you restrict yourself to musl & busybox… otherwise reserve at least 1GB…

Show threadKineneMay 16

@stuartl @sjvn
Linux:
IBM ThinkPad T23
1 GB RAM
30 GB storage
32 bit architecture
anti-X Linux

It runs, slowly, but it runs, and has a real serial port for some equally old cable connectors.

We don't need no stinking Windoz.

Show threadPaul McGraneMay 16
@sjvn @rrgeorge weren't people just recently gnashing their teeth that Intel 486 support is getting dropped?
Show threadpunIssuerMay 16
@pmcg I think the slight of hand here is that Linux isn't a single (set of) executable(s), but exists in variants for CPUs of all sizes
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Show threadPaul McGraneMay 16
@punissuer @sjvn @rrgeorge I thought to be pedantic Linux is exactly the kernel
Show threadpunIssuerMay 16
@pmcg yes. I was just hedging my bets, journalist style (e.g., saying "one of the highest mountains in (wherever)" when you don't want to look up if it really is the highest) :)
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Show threadOlivierMay 18
@sjvn even then, with 4GB of RAM you won't be able to do much in Windows...