I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.
macOS is a UNIX OS and is far better than Windows on resource management.
The problem is that Apple doesn’t seem to care. They willy nilly change things and restrict basic functions with zero regard for those who want to support or develop for there platforms.
What Apple does with iOS and macOS developers is straight up extortion.
Nope, you can run winass on worse Mashines than mac, however i still think its incredibly wasteful with resources, but its both of them.
I just recently did this test on an old MacBook Pro 2011 and installed Windows 10, Pop, and macOS in succession. Windows ran like ass and Pop and macOS ran about the same (fine). Settled on Pop for better Steam compatibility. Trust me, Windows is uniquely bad.
Windows runs like ass on the Mx Chips in general.
Apple Software runs good on Apple hardware, yes its way better optimized and made for each other than the Microsoft surface products for example. Doesn’t mean Apple Software runs resource efficiently in general.
But don’t get me wrong, i hate windows more than Apple software, but thats mostly because im forced to work with windows.
You’ve clearly never run hackintosh. MacOS runs better than Windows even on PCs not made by Apple. The difference is especially obvious on Laptops, where MacOS gets almost as much battery life as Linux, whilst Windows barely gets about 2/3rds as much
The 2011 MacBooks were still Intel. Mine’s an i7.
I have Linux (OpenWRT) running on a router with 64MB RAM and 16MB of flash storage. And it works flawlessy. Also have Linux on a second WiFi router, my TV (LG WebOS), one phone, a laptop and a computer. (And I forgot about the Raspberry Pi and the VPS.)
Yeah but those are specifically designed for this. Linux Mint 22 isn’t designed to run with what is basically nothing nowadays.
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Meh. You’re right… However… Most things will run either Doom or Linux (or both). And nobody cares whether they have been designed to do it, or not. 🐧
Not to dissect a meme too hard but I’m pretty sure the ram is supposed to go pins down into the potato.
Lightweight distros need less than 1GB of RAM, so you don’t need to use the entire RAM.
It is amazing how little you need to have a functional system. I have a OpenMediaVault / minidlna server using NAS ARM board that only has 256MB of RAM, and it isn’t using all of it, and doesn’t need to swap.
There are some in the potatoe.
Yup, but once you do that, it’ll run Linux just fine.
Apple’s requirements should be a pile of money, a big pile of money.
A pile of money on fire
And then Apple refusing to repair it due to “water damage”
It’s funny people still think this, they just replaced nearly my entire M1 MacBook Pro that was completely fucked because of water damage. Literally everything but the display was replaced, I basically have a new computer at the cost of $300+whatever I paid for AppleCare+ when I bought it ($400, I think?), which is significantly cheaper than buying a new one would have been
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Hey guys, check out my new mobile Linux rig
Points to gum stuck to bottom of his shoe
boots
Your username sickens me.
Hey, the Optimus 7 was great at its time!
Be gone Windows man, BE GONE FROM ME
I use Fedora btw if that brings you peace
Fuck, I remember my windows phone now. Live tiles are better than any modern phones ui.
I would install Linux on it
Potato optional
I looked into running potatoless ages ago and didn’t care for the tradeoffs that come with running hamster wheel. You have to change the potatoes every so often, but at least they don’t shit everywhere.
(Oh, I assumed pictured was a potato CPU, not potato PSU)
Anyways, as long as you don’t make the mistake of using runny ((s)mashed) potatoes, it should be fairly ez.
Have you ever tried Linux on photosynthesis?
That sounds like it runs Mint, or genetically modified SUSE.
[Children of the Omnissiah plays]
I think macOS and windows have to swapped 🤔 macyoS seems to run less bloat in background
Yeah ddinitely needs image swap, or this meme would make more semse if it said $ instead of requirements. MacOS is unixy and doesn’t require super specs
😁macOS is even more Unix than linux (BSD kernel)
Linux is like Unix and MacOs is (a) Unix system
Significantly less bloat for sure. I do like that there is the MicroWin project that exists for windows though.
As if Apple would give you all that
No, thats why its the requirements.
They give you the laptop underneath but at the price of 90% the PC, but really good looking. If you want more, throw it in the trash and buy new.
No really I dont think MacOS has big requirements, it simply doesnt officially support most PCs.
They give you the laptop underneath but at the price of
90200% the PCFTFY
Its just not actually running on most chipsets on purpose so you need a translation layer wich requires a pretty buff PC. It runs well on apple hardware, however its designed for each other. But from what i know it does use more CPU Power than windows, windows is more RAM intensiv than mac as of my last knowledge as well.
No idea, their laptops are silent since a long time while using i7 or even i9 CPUs. They are hella good at optimization I think.
Well, I guess I will have to install Hackintosh on my Chromebook and see XD
This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”.
It’s hard to over-state my satisfaction
Aperture Science, we do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us; except the ones who are dead :(
How are you holding up?
Because I am a potato
Its hard to overstate my satisfaction
You need to show a better computer for windows
Its literally a surface product (yes they suck)
I really liked my surface tablet tbh
My condolences
No idea what you’re talking about tbh, everyone I talked to that owned one has been pretty happy with it.
Oh lol I thought it was a netbook
Nah its a surface book
Ah, I see Linux supports breadboards now!
Nah sadly thats a potato custom. The generic breadboard isn’t supported yet due to problems with the closed source of the chipset.
Missed opportunity to make trashcan joke about macos.
Trashcan Mac is good tho, as compact and quiet Linux machine it is
They’re almost down to a price where I’d consider picking one up just because I think they look awesome, and are reasonably easy to max out their spec. Trouble is, that maxed out spec might tip its benchmarks over my M2 Macbook. Might.
Xeon 2696v3 is good with it’s 18 core 36 threads, this cpu cost around 45$ on AliExpress too, also top up 128gb ram and it’ll be great homeserver
Out of interest, I just looked up the actual benchmark scores.
A ‘13 Pro with a Xeon 2697v2 scores 4891 on multi core
My 15” M2 MacBook Air scores 9735 on the same.
It’s astonishing how much Apple leapt ahead when the M-series chips dropped. Sure, the Intel machines on macOS still have their uses, (I’m typing this on a 2014 Mac mini that I use for work), but Apple have done an incredible job of flooding the market with solid hardware to install Linux on.
i love how the ram is connected to the potato, standing straight :) pardon my english
Yeah it’s just jabbed in end first at the scientifically most chaotic angle.
It must have been a mix-up between “component name” and “how to install”.
The living room PC is an old Dell that came with windows 7 and was left behind in an apartment when everybody moved out. It also runs Mint.
Recent news about running Linux on intel 4004 be like
Isn’t a 4004 a 4-bit ALU?
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.+Linux4004
Blog post if interested
Holy dissertation, Batman!
