#fydeos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fydeos, aggregated by home.social.
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ZDNet: How I turned my ancient Windows PC into a Chromebook for free – with FydeOS. “FydeOS is a Linux-based OS that looks and feels just like ChromeOS, down to the Material Me design. It includes background updates (so you don’t have to worry about remembering to update), seamlessly supports web, Android, and Linux apps, boots in 8 seconds, uses read-only access and ‘virus armour’ for hardened […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/28/zdnet-how-i-turned-my-ancient-windows-pc-into-a-chromebook-for-free-with-fydeos/ -
Since #FydeOS was a bust on the #ebox, I did try a few other distros to see what sticks.
1) Tried #EasyOS. It was neat to play around with but not my cup of tea.
2) Attemptedto install #Fedora #LXDE, all three attempts failed during the install process.
3) currently running #AlpineLinux with #LXQT. This might be the one I stick with for a while.
Anyone have any good ideas for a low spec cpu that has to much ram pc? The ebox is running an Intel Celeron 3965U with 16 gigs of ram? -
After more tinkering, I feel #FydeOS was a bust. The goal was to make a light weight media streaming box (either with the ebox or the N100 mini pc). Video quality was all over the place and there was no good way to fix it/make consistent between apps and web apps.
Also to get the most out of it you will more likely use one’s Google Account. At that point, I suggest using #ChromeOSFlex -
Okay team, I did some more tinkering. I decided to try #FydeOS on my #N100 mini pc instead of the #ebox; this allows me to do the “modern” installation instead of the slim. I get a performance boost too; win-win.
Im a bit in the fence. The OS itself is super easy to use and what not. But with streaming the video quality is all over the place. I can get full 1080 on Youtube but HBO Max is super fuzzy. I will test out more streaming services as I have too many and will report back. -
Still playing with the Framework 12, now the system is a triple boot, as I installed FydeOS in addition of #popos and #haikuos .
There, tablet mode is working quite well:
* with a virtual keyboard respecting the selected layout in the OS,
* the physical keyboard and touchpad being disabled in tablet mode.Unfortunately, there is no screen rotation despite the option being active in the settings.
As much as I don’t like chrome, I must admit the system is really nice to use.