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habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m happy with proxmox in a non-production environment/homeLab. Stable and straightforward.

Just found out from your comment that windows is shutting the door completely on CPUs that don’t support POPCNT. There’s config settings to install Windows 11 on legacy hardware (old CPU, tpm chips, etc) but who knows when they’ll pull the plug on that.

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Tja@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Weird as it is, it’s not as radical as I thought:

For Intel’s chips, it was added as part of SSE4.2 in the original first-generation Core architecture, codenamed Nehalem. In AMD’s processors, it’s included in SSE4a, first used in Phenom, Athlon, and Sempron CPUs based on the K10 architecture. These architectures date back to 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Of course they probably could have avoided it, but a 15 year old PC is as close to ewaste as it gets. Even if you could run Linux on it, a modern smartwatch probably has more computing power, let alone a smartphone or raspberry pi. The main use could be as a space heater.

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- cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yea there’s plenty of reasons to shit on MS, but dropping support for a 15+ years old CPUs isn’t one of them lol
  
  If someone is being affected by this, then maybe it’s time for them to upgrade their shit lmao
  
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