On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:41:17PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > Only Fedora Workstation edition explicitly states minimum hardware > requirements: "Fedora requires a minimum of 20GB disk, 2GB RAM, to > install and run successfully. Double those amounts is recommended." > https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > > Minimum hardware requirements is intended to setup some kind of > expectation of performance. The goal isn't the hardware requirement, > that's just the means of getting to the goal. So what's the goal? For > sure folks need to be able to install it plus some breathing room to > install additional software and user data. That gets to the minimum > storage space angle. I think that those numbers (20GB+2GB) are quite reasonable for the stated purpose of "install and run successfully". I think that people know and understand that additional resources are required for additional things, and e.g. we don't need to tell them that they need extra 40GB if they have 40GB of photos. People also understand that if they have an 8 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM, it's not going to be as much fun as a new thing. But again, they know this without us explaining it. > Anyway, this is just to kick off a conversation. Let's see where it goes. Downthread, minimal CPU reqs were mentioned. But in fact those are fairly low — we build everything to a fairly old baseline. It hasn't come up much, and I think we don't need to worry about this too much. If people were not asking if we support 4-year-old hardware 6 years ago, they are even less likely to ask about it now when it's 10 years old. If people have some specific question like support for Intel Atom, we should direct them to ask.fp.o or one of the other venues. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
