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For all the tech skrubs, OS stands for operating system.

I use Chrome for my laptop, Android for my phone and Ubuntu for the laptop I bought and am trying to fix up.
 

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For all the tech skrubs, OS stands for operating system.

I use Chrome for my laptop, Android for my phone and Ubuntu for the laptop I bought and am trying to fix up.
If Chrome is the OS, then that makes it a Chromebook. Ergo, not a laptop.

#Semantics

Typed up and posted from a Chromebook
 

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On a serious note. I use a Chromebook too but i installed windows on it.
 

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On a serious note. I use a Chromebook too but i installed windows on it.
How did you do that then? I'm having difficulty trying to install Ubuntu on an old laptop of mine which runs Windows.
 

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How did you do that then? I'm having difficulty trying to install Ubuntu on an old laptop of mine which runs Windows.
Some guy on reddit made drivers and a custom bios. (What a legend).

Well if its a windows laptop should be easy.
 

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Some guy on reddit made drivers and a custom bios. (What a legend).

Well if its a windows laptop should be easy.
Yeah, but this laptop isn't able to connect to the Wi-Fi for some reason and lacks a disc drive.
 

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Okay. Just currently attempting to fix this terminally fucked computer.

#systemrestore
What's wrong with it? Cant you just wipe the HDD and install Ubuntu instead?
 

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What's wrong with it? Cant you just wipe the HDD and install Ubuntu instead?
Blue Screen of Death keeps occurring. The recommended fix for that is to a system restore. I don't know how to wipe the HDD anyway.
 

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Blue Screen of Death keeps occurring. The recommended fix for that is to a system restore. I don't know how to wipe the HDD anyway.
Plug in the Ubuntu stick then do a clean install.

How do you not know that.
 

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Ubunutu looks awesome though.
 
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