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[–] [email protected] 211 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

The internet is srs bzns.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

[–] MajorHavoc 61 points 9 months ago

I hate that I kind of like this point...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

someone put swap on google drive

[–] drew_belloc 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Use dropbox like any pleb would

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you meant DVD-RAM.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sup, that would actually be possible.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I use my whiteboard for swap.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Yeah, never had a problem with incompatible hardware on Linux.

No siree, not a once!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Such an up and down though. I have an ancient epson scanner that cannot be used on modern windows, but I just installed the driver on linux and everything has been amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Did you ever had to buy a new laptop because Linux stopped supporting the current one?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I've had the reverse. I started using arch because debian didn't have my wifi driver yet.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No but I am looking for a new laptop and this time I'll definitely spent more time checking Linux compatibility.

My previous thinkpad worked fine out of the box, but my current laptop is an HP Omen, that I mostly selected for the price to performance ratio. But I immediately learned that Linux compatibility sucked. Like not being able to boot an Ubuntu usb drive (without messing with the boot parameters).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

This is not a problem with Linux, this is a problem with hardware manufacturers not making drivers for Linux.

Which is understandable, honestly. Making drivers is surely not an easy task. Targeting Windows covers the 80/20 rule.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I just broke out into a cold sweat remembering trying to get wifi to function on my netbook back in 2k8.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That fucking wolfs face never fails to make me laugh

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Please don't fuck wolfs face

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not true. For modern Linux you need a processor with a memory controller and 8mb of ram. If also need to be a processor from the 21 century.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

At least pentiums are still supported. Who knows what all those IBM Thinkpad users are capable of if they weren't distracted.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

But it's possible with almost zero ram, like 32mb, but it'll be a very slow experience

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Btw. If you disable the Intel ME, TPM is nonfunctional.

Yay!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Wow, now that is literally insane and super awesome at the same time lol

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, you can run Linux on an FPGA...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You can install windows in a brick wall.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's just a CPU with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Everything looks like CPU when you are linux

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i remember when i could run windows 3.1 on a potato

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