Check for processor using a script about thorium HOT 4 CLOSED

@oczt Are you there mate? Wanna check back with you before I close this issue and make sure you saw I responded.

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@oczt Good Idea. Chromium needs SSE3 since version 90, and I noticed that just recently, the debian chromium requires the package sse3-support as a dependency, which disallows installing on unsupported processors. The maintainer of the package has sse2-support, sse3-support, and sse4.2-suuport, but no avx or avx2-support package. I contacted him to see if he can make such a package, so that Thorium and other apps requiring AVX like some data science packages on linux will refuse to install on unsupported processors.

Until such time though, I can definitely write a script to check for avx. I will distribute it with the linux releases. I'm about to make a release right now, and I will include your name in the release for credit.

Thanks for using thorium, and thanks for this issue, its something I should have considered a long time ago, considering I've gotten more than a few issues on here and the windows version with people wondering why it wasnt working for them, and they had a celeron or something which didn't support avx even though it was a haswell or skylake chip.

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@oczt Here we go > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/check_avx.sh

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Thanks...

./check_avx.sh 

Checking if host is capable of building/running Thorium Browser.

SUCCESS: 64-bit x86 CPU (lm)
SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.2 (sse4_2)
SUCCESS: Advanced Encryption Standard Extensions (aes)
FAIL: Advanced Vector Extensions (avx

PS: For mere mortals' understanding, you can end the script with

Sorry... the at least a test failed, which means thorium may not run on this device.

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