Mastodawn

Experiencer (Mastodon)Jan 10, 2023

It's sad to see it but #Windows 8.1, Windows 7 ESU as well as #Chrome and #Microsoft #Edge support for these operating systems have ended today. This'll be the last #PatchTuesday #update for these devices.

what do i do with my hp stream now, try and fail at putting linux on it?

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Dazzat60 Jan 10, 2023

@experiencersinternational why would you fail putting Linux on it? Linux would resurrect it and give it life (depending on what Linux DE you were putting on). Do it.

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Experiencer (Mastodon)Jan 10, 2023

@Dazzat60 it's mainly WiFi adaptor compatibility and graphics drivers

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Experiencer (Mastodon)Jan 10, 2023

@Dazzat60 think the GPU is 'Intel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 Series' and I know the WiFi adaptor is a Realtek RTL (eight thousand series one? i don't know exactly)

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Dazzat60 Jan 11, 2023

@experiencersinternational what about giving Linux Mint 21.1 a try but I would suggest the Xfce version. You have nothing to lose and a possibly fully functioning good Linux machine. I would make a bootable usb with ventoy, copy the Mint iso onto it and boot into the live environment to see what happens. Ventoy is at https://www.ventoy.net/ just follow the directions, its easy to do but probably best with at least an 8GB usb.

Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.

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Experiencer (Mastodon)Jan 11, 2023

@Dazzat60 I forget Live Environments exist ngl

I'm more used to the Cinnamon environment in VMware. I do want to experiment with Ventoy eventually but my only USB stick has Windows 7 installed on it lol

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Dazzat60

@experiencersinternational I have had Cinnamon on my machine but switched to MX linux for a little while on the Xfce variant and really liked it. When I switched back to Mint I went with the Xfce and I really like it as the window tiling in Xfce is far superior to Cinnamon which I tried again in a VM but it is woeful. I am also running Xfce 4.18 on my Mint which I got by installing the Xubuntu PPA's and my machine is purring like a well fed kitten.