I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.
Not to dissect a meme too hard but I’m pretty sure the ram is supposed to go pins down into the potato.
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.
True
I think macOS and windows have to swapped 🤔 macyoS seems to run less bloat in background
Nah, the MacOS just has the wrong picture.
It should be a specifically branded laptop, because as far as I know, it is impossible to run MacOS on anything other than an Apple branded computer.
Introducing the (dying) Hackintos)
I still hope to be surprised and see some madlad on youtube installing macOS on PC+copilot PCs (what a dump name, lol)
You can just call them Arm PCs.
Yea, but I was explicitly meaning those not just arm 😇 others would be too easy 😂 /s
Hackintos is installing Windows or Linux on a Mac, it is not the other way around.
No it isn’t
Never heard of it that way. Why would it be called a hack when Mac OS supports dual booting natively? In my experience it was always about finding drivers that could support hardware not built by apple.
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)
Sure but they pay for unix certification even though some isn’t so unix…thus they y I added.
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.
I assume because apple optimize it for the hardware
Potato optional
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
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.
Sure, but you can’t run it on anything but Apple hardware
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.
The 2011 MacBooks were still Intel. Mine’s an i7.
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
Mac requirement: thin metal laptop made by apple
Windows requirement: fart instruction for cpu only for 58gen bintel
Linux: motherboard (optional)
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
Why?
You can run Windows 11 on 200MB of RAM, a 8GB drive, and a CPU of last decade. Check out Tiny11
I know about tiny11, but I’d assume this post is talking about stock windows
Corrections:
MacOS:
- Featureless Apple™-branded oblong with 195% profit margin (support for 160% profit margin dropped in Apple™ Mac™OS™ 12.8.3.1.6.4 West Coast Yuppie Resort)
- Devices no more than two years old
- No pride, self-respect, personality, etc, except that provided by ownership of Apple™ products.
For Windows:
- CPU generation newer than an arbitrary, shifting and easily-bypassed watershed.
- 1, 2, 4, 16 or 128GB of RAM, depends who you ask.
- Windows License 😉
- Copilot+ AI requires Microsoft CoPilot+ AI compatible Microsoft CoPilot+ AI CoProcessor+ and Microsoft CoPilot+ CoProcessor+ AI Microsoft CertificAItion+
- A lack of awareness or interest in operating systems.
For Linux:
- Turing-completeness.
- Memory, networking, inputs, outputs, power (optional).
- Another computer to occasionally Google who ‘initramfs’ is and why he won’t let you boot.
I think macos is much less bloated than windows tho it only runs on apple devices(without trickery). Windows is absolutely horrible on resources.
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.
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. 🐧
deleted by creator
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.
I does if you have a supported architecture with a MMU
Missed opportunity to make trashcan joke about macos.
I would say netbsd is more of the potato. Linux needs at least 6mb of ram to be useful.
Found the vega-uh, BSD nut at the party.
I don’t use BSD. However, Netbsd will literally run on anything. They have a VAX port and a Acorn64 port.
I have an atom Asus transformer with 2gb of ram that can run but not much else. Any good 32 bit distros I can look into? Realistically I think much of the mainstream web browsers are becoming too heavy also, which is what I would primarily use and might be more of my problem.
Antix offers a 32bit build and only uses about 100mbs of ram(and systemd free as well it uses sysvinit and runit uses window managers like icewm jwm instead of regular desktope nvironments )
