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What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That poor x220 deserves a coreboot and a good OS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Libreboot*

[–] [email protected] 13 points 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, it's going to take government to take back ring level -1 ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That'd be really sick if they did that but I don't foresee it happening anytime soon 😥

[–] NeilBru 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~Can you run a virtual machine?~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, why?

[–] NeilBru 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

Sorry, replied to wrong user.