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Gallium OS worked great... until it got abandoned. Then, those seeking updates were stuck finding a distro that worked well, with available drivers, had to dea

Gallium OS worked great... until it got abandoned. Then, those seeking updates were stuck finding a distro that worked well, with available drivers, had to deal with the stupid keyboard and remapping the keys, etc. I'm not going down that road again.

thriftwy 3y ago
If it's cheap (and shabby) enough to reason once in 3 years upgrade, that is no longer a problem. And that's exactly how long my Lenovo laptops tend to survive these days.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Just what the world needs right now, throw away hardware every 3 years.
  - jraph 3y ago
    Yeah, that's crazy. 3 years is barely what we ought to aim for phones, let alone laptops. If only software didn't get more and more heavy.
jraph 3y ago
A relative still uses an Asus C200 Chromebook. When GalliumOS was abandonned, we were able to successfully install Linux Mint. Mainline Linux now works correctly, we took some packages related to the keyboard from GalliumOS and pinned them. A bit annoying but workable. The sound has always been capricious though, but it was also the case on GalliumOS.* I think buying this machine was a good call at the time, almost 10 years ago. Very good battery life, lightweight, cheap and now we know, incredibly durable. But I'm with you. It definitely was a maintenance burden and it's good that this relative is patient with the flaws that it exhibits, and its slowness. Today, it would make more sense to just buy a refurbished pro laptop and put Linux on it and be done with it. It'll be as cheap, but the whole experience will be way better. That's what I do for me, and that's what we'll probably do with this relative when they or the machine gives up, which does not seem to want to happen. Good for the environment I guess.
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sdf4j 3y ago
Debian12 works great out of the box

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Gallium OS worked great... until it got abandoned. Then, those seeking updates were stuck finding a distro that worked well, with available drivers, had to dea

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thriftwy 3y ago
If it's cheap (and shabby) enough to reason once in 3 years upgrade, that is no longer a problem. And that's exactly how long my Lenovo laptops tend to survive these days.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Just what the world needs right now, throw away hardware every 3 years.
  - jraph 3y ago
    Yeah, that's crazy. 3 years is barely what we ought to aim for phones, let alone laptops. If only software didn't get more and more heavy.
jraph 3y ago
A relative still uses an Asus C200 Chromebook. When GalliumOS was abandonned, we were able to successfully install Linux Mint. Mainline Linux now works correctly, we took some packages related to the keyboard from GalliumOS and pinned them. A bit annoying but workable. The sound has always been capricious though, but it was also the case on GalliumOS.* I think buying this machine was a good call at the time, almost 10 years ago. Very good battery life, lightweight, cheap and now we know, incredibly durable. But I'm with you. It definitely was a maintenance burden and it's good that this relative is patient with the flaws that it exhibits, and its slowness. Today, it would make more sense to just buy a refurbished pro laptop and put Linux on it and be done with it. It'll be as cheap, but the whole experience will be way better. That's what I do for me, and that's what we'll probably do with this relative when they or the machine gives up, which does not seem to want to happen. Good for the environment I guess.
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sdf4j 3y ago
Debian12 works great out of the box