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Its super easy to get a no-bloat operating system. Not from microsoft, but there's a flavor of linux for everything.
by dghlsakjg 3y ago
Its super easy to get a no-bloat operating system. Not from microsoft, but there's a flavor of linux for everything.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoHow well does Linux run on Windows 3.1 era hardware?
- phlummox 3y agoAs someone who ran Linux on Windows 3.1 era hardware, perfectly well.
- TkTech 3y agoVery well, and striped down kernels run on hardware with even less resources today (embedded systems) than 3.1 minimum requirements. If a platform has lost support, and there's sufficient money in it to justify it, you can always go back in time to an older kernel. What really sucks is when a platform vendor maintains their own tree and it gets lost to time. The real pain is populating the userspace if you need more than just busybox.
- arp242 3y agoThere's distros for this: https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux – it's based on Linux 6.7. Never used it; don't know how well it works in practice. But it's the type of thing that can be made to work. Looks like some minimum requirements are a tad higher than the minimum of Windows 3.1 though, so it depends a bit on what you mean exactly with "Windows 3.1 era hardware".
- dghlsakjg 3y agoPretty good I would imagine. The first public release of Linux predates Windows 3.1.
- M95D 3y agoI can't read the original article anymore. The orginal Win311 ran fine for 30 years probably until the HDD failed and they need someone to do a reinstall. Why would they change the operating system?
- dghlsakjg 3y agoMy comment was replying to someone claiming that you can’t get a no-bloat operating system like 3.11 anymore. I was just pointing out that it has been possible the entire time. It would certainly be silly to change OS just for the sake of it on a 30 year old project.
- M95D 3y agoThere is no Linux flavor that is even remotely comparable with Win3.1 if you include the GUI in the comparison.