https://piefed.zip/u/Sunshine posted on Apr 6, 2026 05:03
YSK also this
| Category | Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Windows 11 | | — | — | — | | Processor (CPU) | Dual-core 2 GHz or faster processor | 1 GHz or faster, 2+ cores | | Memory (RAM) | 6 GB minimum | 4 GB minimum | | Storage | 25 GB free disk space | 64 GB or larger storage device | | Architecture | 64-bit only | 64-bit only | | Security Hardware | No TPM requirement | TPM 2.0 required |
That laughably understates the RAM required for Windows to be useful.
Biggest thing that I think is pretty badly phrased… is linux “system requirements”. considering in the windows world if you try and install with less than the required ram… the installer will usually stop you.
While in ubuntu they may say “requirement” but it’s a recomendation. You can install 26 into a VM with 1 GB of ram… and it will run. Really nothing in this version of ubuntu is more resource hungry than the previous version. So in short them boosting the number is just saying “if you use a typical amount of tabs open in your browser, 6gb ram is kind of needed”.
So yeah I’d say most likely the fair way to put it is, windows 11 will let you install on 4gb of ram… but most would say it’s very unusable even at a basic level with that, you can run ubuntu with that… it will probably not be a great experience, but not as bad as windows until you start running into large web apps or tons of tabs.
We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?
it was inpired and afaik at first based on it, but arch has threaded its own path ever since
Nah. A company looking to run FreeBSD user space software like pf on Linux.
I wouldn’t say bullshit
KDE connect is fairly obscure
Let’s get it to 6% on steam!
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u didnt do the canvas thing before? its just a bot that pms you the link lol
whatevs lol
Unsure what that is, didn’t see any option other than logging in on that site.
whatevs lol
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You could put it into the
archinstallscript and just never finish the installation if there is no age set. You could also prevent a user from logging into an account that has no age set, this could be achived by modified core packages in thebasepackage.
My (rather limited) understanding is that Arch can be installed both without the archinstall script and without a user. Also, the rest of your comment covers how stupid it is to require a value anyway since people can put whatever they want.
Outside of that, it’s all open source. It’s possible to fork and remove the field entirely from an install script, distro, or even systemd itself.
Nobody can enforce this in the open source world. This is honestly the strongest argument for an open source exemption in these laws. It cannot be enforced on open source OSs.
that Arch can be installed both without the archinstall script
Yes. But it would protect them from legal liability.
It was fairly easy. I used rustic to back up my entire home directory to a USB flash drive.
The trick is to ensure that all applications (except KDE) are closed. Firefox, for example, really hates if you try to actively sync or copy over it’s profile directories while it is running.
And then I also nuked my podman user data. (podman system reset). Podman sometimes makes the ownership of it’s files weird, but also the container images take up a lot of space that I don’t really care about actually backing up. It’s okay if those aren’t on the new laptop.
Then I backed up to the usb flash drive:
rustic init -r /path/to/repo — this will prompt you for a password
rustic backup -r /path/to/repo /home/moonpie
One cool thing about the backups is that they are deduplicated and compressed. So I backed up 120 gb of data, but it was compressed to 80 gb.
restic snapshots -r /path/to/repo
The snapshots are deduplicated as well. Data that doesn’t change between snapshot versions, doesn’t take up any extra space.
rustic restore -r /path/to/repo snapshotid /
The / is needed because rustic restores to paths underneath the thing. It gave me a bunch of permission errors about not being able to read stuff not in my home directory, but eventually it restored all of my data.
And then yeah. All my data. Except Wifi passwords, which I had stored as unencrypted for all users, because I didn’t like having to unlock the KDE wallet to get to Wifi passwords when connecting. I had (and have) LUKS encryption so I didn’t worry about that too much. But it means that data not in my home directory was not copied over.
It was surprisingly smooth, and now I have all my data and firefox profiles and stuff on the new machine.
Not sure you should use rustic over restic man, trading stability for performance isn’t a good idea when it comes to backups
Do you have any examples of rustic having bugs that eat data? I couldn’t find any precedent when I searched, which is part of why I used rustic.
restic is in go, rustic is in rust, both are memory safe typed languages.
(look at the title)
also Japan: “what’s a11y?”