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Is my hardware too old for CatchyOS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by yesman@lemmy.world to c/asklinux@lemmy.world

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I was curious about CatchyOS, but I understand it's really intended for the latest and greatest hardware. One of the few distros that not friendly to older tech. I only have an older machine to test:

B450 Aorus M

Ryzen 7 5700

GTX 1660 Ti

32GB DD4

Would it be worth testing Catchy on this machine, or is my hardware too old to play?

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

OK, I got the idea Catchy was unfriendly to older tech from this article.

Maybe I misunderstood or the info is out of date. I got cold feet when the provided terminal command returned "Not Supported" for my CPU . Perhaps I didn't run that correctly.

grep -o 'x86-64-v3' /proc/cpuinfo && echo "Supported" || echo "Not Supported"

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

And yea, I already installed it in a VM and it worked well as soon as I gave it more than the default 2GB RAM. I know that should really have answered my question, but like I said.. cold feet.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

No lol wtf

[–] 17lifers@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

anything core 2 duo/quad or newer will work fine, you only need newer processors if you'd like to make use of the optimized packages..

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

I once tried running Cachy on a first-gen i7 from 2009. It seemed to run fine, though obviously couldn't take advantage of the newer instruction sets.

Best bet is to try running from a live USB. If it boots, you'll be able to check its compatibility with all your components.