Comment on Anon's PC works

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I upgraded to Linux. It worked out well for me since I mostly pay retro games and games from yesterday year.

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I upgraded a Chromebook to Linux recently. That was a huge bump in performance that I wasn’t expecting, not even just for gaming.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What OS was it running before? ChroomeOS is Linux right?

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      • ahornsirup@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Technically yes, and so is Android. But neither work the way you’d expect a typical Linux distro to work.

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      • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah it was ChromeOS. It is sort of linux, but google is an advertisement company. You can’t ask them to not collect your data and recently they gave up pretending like they cared about user privacy. Linux is none of that. Complete opposite.

        If you compare it to linux side by side, chromeOS is basically the alternate reality evil twin with the goatee

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What distro? Did you follow a guide?

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      • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        installed Lubuntu 24 on it using a guide that loosely applied to the low end chromebook I have. Link here

        Using chrome browser on ChromeOS was snappy but any other browser I used with addons was an awful and laggy experience. The difference in performance was an unexpected win, but I primarily did it to ditch SpywareOS.

        Going forward I’m probably going to just look for chromebooks to convert to linux for a daily driver laptop because you dont have to pay a premium for the spyware like you do with a windows laptop

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  • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I upgraded to Linux and can still play every game I’ve tried to play

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• raker@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you want to stay with Windows for whatever reason, even 11, I can recommend Revision Playbook. It locks your installation and scrapes out the crap like unwanted updates and features like AI bullshit, Edge, Telemetry and whatnot. You can even manually install Apps from the Store without the Store if you like to. Security patches and selective updates come only via manual download from MS catalogue in my case, but you can automate this too with some tools.

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