Everyone knows they only got through Moneybags Medical School because of their parent Dr. Moneybags Senior... It's nepotism all the way! And they got a degree in cosmetic nephrology - what makes them qualified to study potato PCs?
Have you ever held a magnet up to them? They might just be aluminum coated to prevent what’s shown in the image.
There are a few manufacturers that make magnetic case fan filters and such, that wouldn’t make sense if most cases were full aluminum.
Maybe you still had aluminum cases, but then they were probably also rather expensive, because it’s more difficult to manufacture in that thickness without being brittle.
On a serious note, I sometimes see low-end Win7 laptops for the price of just taking them away, them strugling with streaming lowres video on the web. What kind of modern mainstream Linux distro would make it bearable to browse forums and print text with?
At this point, I think the vast majority of performance issues would be caused by the browser itself trying to render overcomplicated javascript-infested pages, not the distro or DE. Pick any distro you want, but use a lightweight browser.
Steaming on a web browser won't work well, but if you can download the file and open it with mpv, or open dev tools and find the stream URL and send it to MPV then it should play fine.
Also I second xfce, any distro will do, I still recommend upgrading to ssd if you can, it's a HUGE performance increase whatever the specks of the machine are.
Try waterfox browser with adblocks. On linux one of the more heavy thing is the desktop manager, so maybe avoid gnome distros, cinammon is also a little bit heavy. If you want to go barebone there are many lightweight distros . Remember that you can run the distro from the bootable usb. Before install anything use the browser and check some video on youtube in full hd or even 4k.
Not going to lie, I kind of want to bury a case in the woods for a few seasons, clean it up just enough to mount hardware/not be crawling in literal bugs.
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Calm down Dr. Moneybags - look how many RAM chips are on that DIMM... No need to flex your wealth!
They didn’t spend eight years in moneybags medical school to be Mx/Mr/Ms/Mrs, thankyouverymuch
Eight years, and people still question Dr. Moneybags on potato PC trutherism
Everyone knows they only got through Moneybags Medical School because of their parent Dr. Moneybags Senior... It's nepotism all the way! And they got a degree in cosmetic nephrology - what makes them qualified to study potato PCs?
Nepotatoes
Pfff I go by Maestro tyvm. Doctors are chumps. I'm poor as a shitmouse but at least I'm poor in style
Everyone in the dev community keeps talking about how good Rust is, so its great to see it in action.
Edit: Dang, just realized the title already did the pun. I am eternally shamed.
That dGPU seems excessive, also the case would be optional.
It sure is
You shouldn't need to run
makeas root, except maybe formake install.Sorry,
make legalrequires the lawyer subroutine which requires full access to everything to verify you have the money to be able to make such a claimThis comment wins the Threadiverse for today.
Is it possible to learn this power?
True, also two sticks of ram and a CPU fan?
And look at all those Molex and SATA connectors. Multiple storage devices is pretty fancy.
Is this the full rust rewrite everyone is talking about?
Incorrect. Linux can run on conputers from the 1990s. That computer is newer than that. It is not the minimum requirements.
IKR? That GPU has a dedicated power connector!
Yeah, that beast can probably host one medium size corporate with Linux, and do some crypto mining on the side
It has a gpu, thats overkill!!!
Abusing? Nahh, my homelab is powered by an AMD A6-5400K that I rescued a decade ago, you're in good company.
it's a quad core?? damn, the decadence is unimaginable
Four things at once!? 😳
Pic related - The server farm compiling the entire slackbuilds repository for Slackware:
Hey, I was hosting the entire Servarr stack on a Raspberry Pi 2B, and it was working no issues. But I removed it, as I did not really utilised it.
I have a Dell Optiplex i5 running JellyFin at home too. I think you're good to go.
But if you clean out the dirt, the File Manager might stop starting.
A bit of salty water will do the trick 👍
the computer holes are happy, at least! :D
what, do i dare ask, are the computer holes?
The smiling holes in the picture!
Drive rail attachment points
hah, computers have had the same drive rail layout for so long that i didn't even notice! .^_^.
They make the computer compute fast
*optional
Must be nice having enough money to afford a factory-made case.
Rust support is solid at least.
I see a SATA cable, this machine is too new.
Still bloated
Okay, so I've got a potato with a Pentium sticker on it, and these racing stripes are too make it go faster.
Guess PC cases were steel back then
Uh.. PC cases are still mostly steel. Maybe not carbon steel, but also not high marine grade stainless.
Lian Li is the only manufacturer I know of to make aluminum cases and they're freaking expensive.
Last couple cases I had and still have are aluminum
Have you ever held a magnet up to them? They might just be aluminum coated to prevent what’s shown in the image.
There are a few manufacturers that make magnetic case fan filters and such, that wouldn’t make sense if most cases were full aluminum.
Maybe you still had aluminum cases, but then they were probably also rather expensive, because it’s more difficult to manufacture in that thickness without being brittle.
On a serious note, I sometimes see low-end Win7 laptops for the price of just taking them away, them strugling with streaming lowres video on the web. What kind of modern mainstream Linux distro would make it bearable to browse forums and print text with?
Any Linux that can run a leightweight desktop like Xfce should do it.
At this point, I think the vast majority of performance issues would be caused by the browser itself trying to render overcomplicated javascript-infested pages, not the distro or DE. Pick any distro you want, but use a lightweight browser.
Steaming on a web browser won't work well, but if you can download the file and open it with mpv, or open dev tools and find the stream URL and send it to MPV then it should play fine.
Also I second xfce, any distro will do, I still recommend upgrading to ssd if you can, it's a HUGE performance increase whatever the specks of the machine are.
Try waterfox browser with adblocks. On linux one of the more heavy thing is the desktop manager, so maybe avoid gnome distros, cinammon is also a little bit heavy. If you want to go barebone there are many lightweight distros . Remember that you can run the distro from the bootable usb. Before install anything use the browser and check some video on youtube in full hd or even 4k.
Not going to lie, I kind of want to bury a case in the woods for a few seasons, clean it up just enough to mount hardware/not be crawling in literal bugs.