People also make Linux run on low powered microcontrollers that take hours to boot and don't have enough processing power to do anything useful just because they can.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe they wanted a lot of malware really fast?

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

We do what we must because we can.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Ohh, I get it, coz we already knew it can run Doom.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That one time Texas Instruments went Nintendo on a developer because they put Linux on a TI calculator.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if someone will write a shim to boot windows 11 on a first generation i7

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

People already run windows 11 on core 2 duos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vHHmIHo8c

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

I found that my colleague had stuck it on an i5 today.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Has anybody tried this on ao486 (MiSTer)?