That poor x220 deserves a coreboot and a good OS
Libreboot*
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
Doesn’t that only work on three IBM laptops from 2014 ?
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.
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 ?
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.
No, it works on a wide variety of hardware. Which systems are supported by Libreboot?
Most (all?) of these have been discontinued for a decade unfortunately
Yes, modern laptop manufacturers wouldn’t let you control your own device.
So, it’s going to take government to take back ring level -1 ?
That’d be really sick if they did that but I don’t foresee it happening anytime soon 😥
Can you run a virtual machine?Yes, why?
Run a Windows VM in<insertYourDistroHere>
and run Roblox?Sorry, replied to wrong user.
I ended up taking my unsupported computer and turned it into an Unraid server. Bought some refurb enterprise drives on eBay to get it set up, and now I have an awesome home media server/NAS.
Why should I be curious about unraid (I have a case and a bunch of drives btw)?
It’s a low friction way to set up a home server with NAS and docker containers. The “Unraid” portion is the configuration that lets you set up an “array” with parity drive(s), but without striping so each disk has a complete filesystem and files accessible even when removed from the array. Everything can be managed through a web UI, and there’s a robust “app store” of docker containers.
The downside is that it’s not free, and they recently moved towards monthly/yearly licensing and increased the cost of new lifetime licenses.
Thanks! Not for me then but close :-)
I wish Roblox would stop having their fight with Linux and I just convert my kids over.
They absolutely don’t need Windows for anything but Roblox at the moment.
Have you tried using sober?
It’s been a little while since I tried last thing I tried was the bottles method and it was not going well.
I’d be willing to give it another shot, But if I do find something else that works I’ve got to make sure that continues to work. If somebody changes something and They miss out on a Halloween or a Christmas live event I’ll never hear the end of it.
Have you looked outside ? No
Run a Windows VM in
<insertYourDistroHere>
and run Roblox?They’re not on the finest of boxes and a lot of the Roblox games actually need some decent resources.
When we get closer to the drop dead date I may give it a shot. I’m kind of hoping Roblox will get around too not being pig-headed about it.
You can definitely give a VM enough power through KVM and qemu to run Roblox. You can even try your hand at single gpu passthrough if it’s worth that much time having youe kids switch to Linux. Not putting a value statement there, I think it is but that’s besides the point.
You can also give quite a bit of power to virtualbox with 3d and hardware acceleration.
I have an unraid with a 2070 super passed, but all the hardware here is 7th/8th gen. They’re barely scraping by on doors/obbys with baremetal :)
Maybe next year they’ll get some upgrades with Debian attached :)
Could try finding them a new game to play on the new system. I’ve never played Roblox myself so don’t have any suggestions, but I’m sure there’s something that will scratch that itch for your kids.
roblox works on linux https://sober.vinegarhq.org/
Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, “oh no, I guess we can’t have Roblox anymore!”
My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.
My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship.
Oh, now you’ve done it, you’ve pissed off the tankies.
Dude, if I could get them to seize the means of production…
Damn, as a father, I feel that.