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Anon's PC works (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] jaybone 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah it was ChromeOS. It is sort of linux, but google is an advertising 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What distro? Did you follow a guide?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks 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

[–] Cheems 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say around 90% of games work without a hitch. 9% require some tinkering. 1% don't work at all.