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OS for the Surface and Surface 2 which used ARM processors
What if they're rooted and running some ARM-friendly flavor of
This is a thing and running Linux only gets more based the more cursed your setup is
I love people running Linux on absolutely bizarre hardware. "It's not stupid if it works, and it isn't e-waste if you can still put it to good use."
I hate seeing grannies getting bamboozled by sales people at Best Buy into buying $2000 machines when all they're doing is checking email and playing video poker. We should be repurposing perfectly fine hardware into cheap servers or email-and-office machines. Not everyone needs to be able to play Cyberpunk on the highest graphics settings...
Yeah, this, for sure. If I had time and energy for it, I'd kinda like to do what some people have posted stories of doing entirely by accident when going into an electronics store to buy a replacement part for something or a pack of batteries, and just hang around and disrupt said slick salesmen and try to help those types of folks realise they don't need a top of the line machine for email and office programs and very basic games, but that was... eh, a neat story 10 years ago, a good way to get thrown out of said shop nowadays.
Yeah but they don't like messing with people in their stores who look like this