I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I’ve put Mint on it now and it’s actually a nice little machine.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought windows 11 needed way more than 4GB of ram
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
pewpew@feddit.it 2 months ago
Tecnically it meets the requirements
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing with Vista was it was it was th3 first really major rebuild of Windows in a long time. Going to 98, ME, XP, etc you had increased minimum specs, but things like drivers and shit generally worked fine, so as long as you had the necessary RAM and processor to run the OS, you could just install the new version and shit would probably work.
So when Vista came along, the manufacturers selling existing models just shipped with the new OS expecting everything to work without testing.