07-14-2025, 12:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2025, 12:34 AM by Shed_Grill.)
Good points and I hear you, but I tried newer distros. They were just too much for it and would require serious tweaking/research/experimenting just to get things functioning. I got myself starting out in a hole of sorts. On the sound "stuttering", it's very slight only in the very beginning of program execution, and only some of the time so it's acceptable. Chromebooks are weird in the hardware department and resource limited too. Gallium solves almost all of the hardware headaches out of the box and runs slick too. I'm just getting started playing around with different languages, always gravitating back towards QBASIC, my first exposure from many years ago. I actually have QBASIC on it too in DOSBox and DOSemu, separately. Also have FreeBASIC and PICO-8. Whatever I'm in the mood for, I guess.
I'm averaging between 8 and 11 hours on a fully charged original battery from 2014, depending on what I'm doing, generating almost no heat, and nothing I do is mission critical or would require newer features. Don't really need to update and barely go online with it. All in all, it's a pretty decent little machine for tinkering, learning, and just playing around.
I'm averaging between 8 and 11 hours on a fully charged original battery from 2014, depending on what I'm doing, generating almost no heat, and nothing I do is mission critical or would require newer features. Don't really need to update and barely go online with it. All in all, it's a pretty decent little machine for tinkering, learning, and just playing around.