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So I decided about two weeks ago I was finally sick of having Windows on my computer. I was trying to edit together a video and I couldn't get my microphone drivers to work. They would cut audio randomly while I was recording. The system was running very poorly on my older gaming PC. I intend to upgrade the hardware in the future but I mostly play older/low graphic games anyways so it's not a big deal to me. I also manually disabled a ton of Windows bloat that were leading to annoying issues like a "nag" message to reinstall the Windows Gaming overlay for example.
I decided to go with the Cinnamon Mint distro. It was a super easy install. I honestly expected it to be a little more... uhh... complicated? I can't speak for everyone but I found flashing the usb and installing it to be really simple. The only hang up I had was right before I attempted to install it I lost power for a day. Substation in my town blew out. Most people are saying it was the AC's running on a hot day, but I think it was the raw power of Linux back feeding into it. Hard to say, but I'm no electrician after all.
I planned my switch pretty carefully. I backed up everything important and went into Linux with an open mind and a plan to start using the open source software. I wanted to make sure I didn't have any compatibility issues and the best way to overcome that was just to use the software available to me in the repositories. I found everything I needed there pretty easily. I downloaded Steam and tested the games I wanted to keep playing. They all ran smooth as butter.
Since I was having so much fun and I had everything set up on my gaming pc, I had another idea. I dusted off my old Chromebook I'd left for junk a few months ago. The poor thing was on it's last legs, no more updates from Google and the battery life was a joke.I remembered that I saw a YouTube video where someone installed Linux on their Chromebook so I decided to give it a shot. I opened her up, pulled out the screw that disabled the read/write on the Chromebook and flashed the MrChomeBox bootloader on to my Chromebook. I was also able to easily get Cinnamon Mint working and I'm writing this post from that same Chromebook right now.
Yes, my old baby from 2017 is back alive again and with some tweaking I've managed to get everything running on it pretty damn well with a few exceptions. The battery needs to be replaced. That should be simple and not really a software related issue. The only software issue I ran into was the sound drivers don't work at all. I'm still troubleshooting the problem but I have a work around. I just use my bluetooth speaker and the audio plays fine through there. Troubleshooting this issue is giving me an opportunity to mess around with the terminal a lot too and it's been so much fun.
I honestly feel like a kid again. Computers had become a function of life instead of a playground like they used to be for me when I was younger. I loved messing around with my old Windows 95 pc and playing in dos always felt so cool to me. I'm really happy I made the choice to switch to Linux and I look very forward to learning more and more about it.
Here's a screenshot of my neofetch and my desktop. I know it's not for everyone but the partially transparent windows are really doing it for me 😁
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