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A popular Linux distro now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At least Ubuntu doesn't require TPM 2.0 security bits! That's a silly restriction whose only purpose is to create more e-waste and more money to Microsoft

And yes, as others have said, Win11 with 4 GB of RAM is not nice. I force-upgraded a Win10 laptop with 4GB of ram (but no TPM 2.0 chip) and mouse clicks were quite slow to register, and all the menus took their sweet time to load up. Yikes. And I am certain it was the lack of memory causing the performance hitches, not the missing TPM 2.0 chip. Installing Mint on it lets it live for another day, hooray! Still slow, but usable enough as a computer. I now run a much newer laptop with EndeavourOS (w/ KDE Plasma) and I enjoy it a lot!