Nuts for Lemmy
Yea that should be plenty for all the telemetry, update checks, notification services, and AI slop tooling (Copilot) to run.
You should be fine as long as you don’t launch any applications, play any games, or attempt to use a web browser or the rest of the computer in any meaningful way.
We call this the “Jurassic Park Problem” at work. Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
I booted an old win 10 laptop the other day to see if it still worked. It has a GPU so I thought it might be nice for a few light games while I travel. Immediately started screaming about updates and all the normal windows stuff.
I booted to Bazzite from a flash drive and had it installed in like 20 minutes. Runs like a dream now. It’s amazing to see what that old hardware can do without Windows choking it.
It’s so easy now to run an option that doesn’t suck.
The 20 minutes was just what the installer took while I worked on other stuff. I guess if you took the time I used to download the .iso and flash the drive then it would be around 30.
I guarantee that I still got that done quicker than even the first round of Windows updates / restarts on that old hardware that hadn’t been booted for 3 years.
I also find that updating bazzite is pretty quick. It’s nothing compared to the Windows bootloop of nonsense. Also that machine doesn’t have TPM so I would have been out of support soon on 10 with no way to go to 11.
It’s still perfectly capable hardware that can run a lot of games. I see no reason to yeet it into the trash or run an insecure / unsupported OS because Microsoft told me to.