Thanks! Every time someone tells me they are having issues with their Windows computer I will refer them to this official Microsoft guide.
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It's not me saying they should switch to Linux, it's the official Microsoft documentation.
Don't. This guide is needlessly complicated and will just confuse people.
Ugh, I hate this. At a time when many are searching the internet for guides, they're injecting the search results with "It's better if you keep Windows. But if you really, really want to, you can go through the COMPLICATED process of installing Linux BARE METAL 😱"
Huh? That guide is pretty extensive in providing different options and ways, but it's not complicated at all. The whole thing is about 2500 words, that would be about 5 pages printed. That's probably much shorter than most Windows guides, and they are not typically offering so many options.
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- Coose a Linux distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Linux, OpenSUSE, etc
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This is nice find for kids pc.
Bruh I downloaded these tools when I was like 7
1 w4n7 70 83 4 1337 h4ck32
Is it bad I had no issues reading that? Highschool in the late 90's earl 2ks was the wild West for tech XD and my friend group communicated 1337 almost exclusively.
What is Leam?
A kerning issue mostly
I have a Lenovo N22 Chromebook from like.. a decade ago. It has the linux install menu so in theory its meant to be a simple install, but every-single-time for 2 years of attempts, has failed. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get it up and running? Im kinda at my wits end with it tbh.
It has the linux install menu
The what now?
Get a USB stick, make it bootable, get your chosen distro on it and then boot from that on your Chromebook. Everything else should be self explanatory, assuming you're not going to some advanced distro.
Ventoy is a very easy way to do this, as you just drop the .iso files into its folder (and you can have multiple ones on the stick too), but not every single distro is supported (most of the commonly used ones are though).
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
Basically you go into the settings and find Linux development environment and turn it on. Setup always fails for me. But yeah I have a few usb keys lying around. I'll charge this chromebook and give it another go later. Do you have any suggestions for a really lightweight distro? I just want to stop using it with chrome since updates ended a year ago.
That's installing Crostini, the vm/container (Debian). Which actually works really really well, especially on on higher-end CBs. But I'd be really surprised if it runs at all, let alone well, on a CB that old.
Better would maybe be replacing ChromeOS but I've never tried to tackle that myself.
Why even include the section for dual boot on metal? Windows is just going to overwrite the bootloader next forced update anyway.
All I see is WSL, WSL, WSL!