Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Libreboot*

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah libreboot is the right coreboot distro, but meh I felt like letting others decide. I personally have my x220 with libreboot and Guix system

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t that only work on three IBM laptops from 2014 ?

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    • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s only VERIFIED to work on old stuff. But you can try. The idea of libreboot is having an unbloated bootloader that is easy to install without having to configure all the setuip yourself. Because of that the libreboot community only verifies it on old hardware or few hardware that the testers have.

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, I’d like that, but what do you think are the chance the random motherboard in my PC isn’t going to get bricked by and the RAM, pcie 8x/8x bifurcation and srv-io are still going to work ?

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    • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it works on a wide variety of hardware. Which systems are supported by Libreboot?

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most (all?) of these have been discontinued for a decade unfortunately

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• NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you run a virtual machine?

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, why?

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    • NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Run a Windows VM in <insertYourDistroHere> and run Roblox?

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