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

• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The most problematic is the stuff that is not standardized and the south-bridge of the chipset. You can always check on coreboot, they are not unbloated philosophy but you can try.

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  • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, modern laptop manufacturers wouldn’t let you control your own device.

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