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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And as I said, it could still be enabled with a boot switch.

It's not like all distros in 1999 had PAE enabled by default. You had to find a pae enabled kernel.

And Linux PAE has been buggy off and on for 20 years:

"It worked for a while, but the problem came back in 2022. "

https://flaterco.com/kb/PAE_slowdown.html