And, it can't run Doom

4gb RAM

Windows 11

Yeah ok, have fun with that.

We built out our company VDI with 8gb because "windows needs 4 and office needs 4".

Somehow.. somehow.. everyone needed an upgrade.
- Yeah, 16 or GTFO
If torture methods existed for computers, this would be one of them
- Officeboarding.
My brother dual boots windows 11 he has 4gb of ram and windows 11 is soo laggy on his laptop
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My thinly-veiled lack of understanding of Linux is in shambles. CPU optional?

The joke is that the system requirements for Linux can be effectively nothing, but of course, some sort of processor is required. It’s hyperbole.
- I think it's also relevant with Windows 10 nearing the end of support, meaning a lot of devices that "can't run windows 11" are "heading to the landfills" (according to some news articles)
It's a joke... Probably.

I don't have a confirmed case of Linux running without a traditional CPU, but I wouldn't bet $20.00 against it existing

There's plenty of devices out there that do some kind of computation and don't have anything we would recognize at a traditional CPU. Such devices are becoming rare, because CPUs are so dang cheap, now.

Most of those run binary compiled from custom C code or even directly from Assembly.

But, if someone was going to run an alternative program on one of those devices, there's a very good chance they would install Linux (heavily customized) on it first.

Source: I've completed parts of Linux from Scratch. It was eye opening to realize the places that a true Linux expert could get it to run. Every single part of Linux is truly optional, to someone who knows that they're doing.
- Those are still CPUs. Microcontrollers have CPUs, and those are the smallest units that can actually run code in a meaningful way.
  
  However, Linux needs an MMU as far as I know, so you won't see Ubuntu boot on an esp32, even though it does have a CPU.
- but I wouldn't bet $20.00 against it existing
  
  Good. Because if Linux can run on RV32I, then it can run on this.
  
  Every single part of Linux is truly optional, to someone who knows that they're doing.
  
  Today for shits and giggles I ran Xonotic as init process. It had trouble with hardware acceleration, so I ran simple bash script that mounted /proc and /sys and then launched xonotic instead.
You can install it on tplink router. So it is optional as you can see. Ir maybe this
- It literally says "32 bit RISC-V homemade CPU out of discrete components".
  
  I dont know how you would stretch the definition of cpu in form of discrete components but yea current processors also stray from the definition of a alu and a control unit and registers since people call the different cores cpus. But even a Mikrocontroller has a all that.
  
  You need a cpu to run linux. If you just want to rin a "program" you can do that with logic gates and no alu or control unit but that would limit the form of your program to exactly that circuit.
- You still need a CPU

Maybe Intel should boot using the embedded x86 in the chipset when the CPU dies in 13th/14th gen. CPU optional.

They need a third image of someone at a Waffle House holding a pistol.

And it’s still only good enough to come in 2nd place (the guy on the right got the Silver)

They both got silver if I'm not mistaken
From what I've seen others post, he got silver because of his teammate. If his solo performance was used to score him, he'd've gotten gold.

You could probably run Linux on a binary abacus. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bbinary_Abacus_002.jpg