Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!
ChromeOS
🤦♂️ My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
yeah 😔
Chromebooks are actually pretty goated. But like, you just gotta remove chromeos in favor of Linux
They don’t make this easy to do. I convinced my boss to let me put Linux on some chrome books that we just use for presenters to read from.
It involves disconnecting the battery and some other stupid shit that the boss wasn’t going to approve me doing.
So they stayed on ChromeOS.
People talk about Apple locking their shit down a lot, but I never had to open up a MacBook to install Linux.
Yeah you gotta get chromebox firmware on there and everything. I’m sure it’s a struggle but like for the price and power efficiency, it’s great. It’s a shame schools throw out pallets of Chromebooks because they’re out of date. Google singlehandedly contributing tons of waste every year
tbh i’d say debloated windows is much better than chromeos… its the worst of both worlds
Be careful here… There will be a learning curve, and you may end up being the tech support person if you aren’t already.
I kinda already am. I hate working on their windows problems
Yeah, fair. At least you’ll get fewer facepalms this way!
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!
Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!
So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex
Sorry, you what???
Some were really adamant about it being like android it’s very annoying
Kinda wish grapheneos had an x86 ChromeOS-esque build. If waydroid had better integration (e.g. lepton) it’d have been an easier sell. It’s on a terribly old laptop. I run different DEs on similar laptops and they didn’t like kde, cosmic, or gnome’s ui, very picky.
I just said no. I’m not going to help you with your computers unless you install Linux on your computer. I can fix all these other dumb operating systems. But I’m not going to do things that are not in your best interest, especially when I’m one doing the tech support.
Like. I’ll still love you if you’re shooting up heroin but I am not gonna go buy your fucking drugs.
🎼I just said no. No. No. No. No. No. No. Fuck no. No. No. Do this. Now. No. I won’t do that. Do this. Now.🎶
Just… like the world we live in now, I only want to hang out with people that use open source. Period. End of story.
Also, phone etiquette is super important. I will not waste my time around you while you diddle with your thumbs on your phone. Also, I don’t want my fucking picture taken unless I know that you have good hygiene and I’ll never find myself on the interwebz.
I’m an extremist, and I have no shame. I just say no.
So the criteria is something running the Linux kernel with no concern for what the user space is and ChromeOS is fine? Kind of reminds me of the movie Uncle Buck when he said he quit smoking and switched to cigars.
Why ChromeOS though? Were they already familiar with the UI and features?
They were probably familiar with the name “Google”, makes it seem official and supported.
Unfortunately, OS Flex is the worst of both worlds; bad Linux distro and no Android runtime and libraries.
FydeOS is the answer.
I didn’t know about this. Looks good.
For extreme non-techies who really don’t understand computers and just want to use a few websites it’s a solid choice because it’s so basic that it’s hard to break
Why on earth would anyone willfully install ChromeOS? I haven’t followed recent developments but I’ve always thought of it as very limiting, not to mention just as bad in terms of privacy as a Windows install.
Our shared family PC is running Aurora. My wife has a ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 on the way and we are trying to figure out what she will be running. She’s coming from an old MacBook Pro so we are going to start with trying to find the best Gnome experience. I was originally thinking Fedora Workstation but I think the updates will get on her nerves.
Aurora is fantastic. I tried just to see how much work it would be to use an immutable os, and ended up using it on my main computer, for both work and gaming. installed and never looked back.
LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.
edit: it’s not just “becoming tech support person”, but becoming the default person to blame for everything.
Switched my parents to mint probably 10 years ago and I haven’t heard any complaints, just had to remind them to update every so often and had to upgrade once EOL came. It has been the same with my very non technical girlfriend that switched to mint probably a year ago.
If you make sure they have supported hardware (and most of it is supported these days) my bet is you won’t have to support them at all.
