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Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor
As the screenshots below show, Microsoft considers the Intel Pentium 4 661 a supported processor. Intel released the Pentium 4 661 in early 2006, with a solitary core to its name. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to add any Intel Family 15 (Netburst) SKUs in its unsupported processors list for Windows 11.
Hence, the PC Health Check tool sees that the Pentium 4 661 has a 3.6 GHz boost clock, which satisfies one of Windows 11's requirements. Curiously, the tool states that the Pentium 4 661 has two or more cores, even though it lists it as having one.
@Carlos_SM1995 has even got Windows 11 (Build 22000.258) running on a Pentium 4 661. Supposedly, Windows Update still works too, highlighting the ridiculousness of Microsoft's overtures regarding Windows 11 compatibility.
Windows 11 final (Build 22000.258) running on Intel Pentium 4 (11m4s video)
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday October 19 2021, @06:57PM (4 children)
Google Chrome runs on Linux, so, if you're happy with its form support, I think you should be good there, right?
My personal method of dealing with PDF forms is flpsed. It just takes the PDF as a background image and draws on top of it. It works great whether the PDF is an actual fillable form or is intended to be printed out and filled in with a pen. I highly recommend it.
I wouldn't recommend taking this approach. I do run Heroes 3 in a VM, and it works okay, but that's a pretty old game. I would not expect newer ones to work very well. If you're going to switch, do your best to get the games running in WINE. Performance will be excellent in WINE, and games are usually pretty easy to get working. If Acrobat doesn't run in WINE after you try it, then use virtualization to run your Acrobat. Modern PC virtualization will give you more than enough performance for desktop publishing.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @07:00PM (1 child)
Anyone who actually deals with PDFs programmatically, like me, who maintained a PDF editor, hates you deeply, with all the fiery, burning hatred of Mordor.
Please don't draw over form fields. The usual not-to-spec crap is awful. Adobe doesn't even meet their own spec.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @10:04PM
How well does SumatraPDF do--relative to your criteria? It seems to do most things I want, but I'm not doing any pdf programming.
Sumatra does one thing that I use--it has a Postscript interpreter in it and I have an old MS-DOS word-processor that runs nicely in DosBox...which spits out clean, tight .ps files. I can open the Postscript (ascii files) directly in Sumatra and then print. Mostly my ancient Xmas card list (print directly on envelopes), but also random old manuals for engineering software we used to sell.
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Wednesday October 20 2021, @01:23PM (1 child)
You are probably better off going the other way. Their are Linux distros optimized for VMs that claim bare metal adjacent efficiency.
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday October 20 2021, @05:32PM
The technology that allows that for gaming purposes is GPU passthrough. It's awkward and wasteful in that you need at least two GPUs in your machine, and you also need either two monitors or an HDMI switcher box.