There’s nothing you can do with that one I think, for two reasons:

1. MrChromeBox’s firmware doesn’t support this model. That’s the guy’s site that tells you how to unlock the bootloader and install the new firmware on it, that allows you to then install another OS.
2. It only has 2 GB of RAM. For a better online experience with any modern Linux, you need a minimum of 4 GB. You could install though something like Kodi, or librelec, or some game emulation distro instead of a desktop OS. But without #1, you can’t do that either. That’s a landfill laptop AFAIC.

Answer is here, it was posted the other day: https://lemmy.ml/post/20903038 Instead of beeping as that script does, you shut the PC down.

If you’re not going to use graphical browsers, like ff or chrome, then get a DELL 3190 (4 gb ram, 64 gb ssd, 1366x768 res). It cost me just $150 as a refurb. I mean, if you don’t want to use it as a modern computer (e.g. aaa gaming, video editing, browser with many tabs etc), then it’s the perfect device. Image of it: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/112253289106616207

As long as your printer is supported, it’s not difficult. The problem is that if you need advanced options, like artists need usually, the options aren’t there.

It was discussed here before: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/15hgmel/what_did_i_screw_up/

thanks, I’ll try that!

It works fine, so I’m ok.

It has the latest firmware, I wrote about it in the description of the post…

Ok, I managed it by myself after a bit of tinkering. This is the bash script:

#!/bin/bash
while true
    do 
        battery_level=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity`
        battery_status=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status`
        if [ $battery_status = "Discharging" ] && [ $battery_level -lt 21 ];
        then
            /usr/bin/aplay  /home/eugenia/Music/alarm.wav
        fi
       sleep 120
    done

Obviously change the path the .wav audio file to suit yours (I downloaded mine from the internet). Then, save the file (in my case, I named it battery.sh), make the script file executable ( chmod +x battery.sh via the terminal, or via the file manager).

Then add it to the Startup Applications settings panel on your distro (usually gnome and cinnamon have one). The alarm will sound if the battery reaches below 21%.

I’m sure is possible, but I’m actually asking for the exact steps/script, not the general idea. :)

I use sheet paper to be honest on an Epson printer. I do use Gimp to print, although most of my editing is happening on Photopea in the browser (gimp didn’t cut it for me as an editor for my paintings, I needed adjustment layers and Secondary Colors). Then, I export a JPEG, and print from Gimp (because the browser doesn’t have all the printing options that gimp has). I use the Debian-Testing rolling release.

I was talking about memory usage, not the rest of the stuff. Yes, Fedora uses as much RAM as Ubuntu.

Yeah, i hear you. I once installed the new version of snap (and later flatpak) of the gnome ide, and it couldn’t find the vala compiler, because it was outside the sandboxing. Totally useless.

And yes, it’s bloated. Nothing works with less 1.6 gb of ram. But then again, it’s the same on fedora.

I don’t like snaps (nor flatpaks for that matter, they’re too big for my slow internet connection here in my Greek village). But I find it absolutely, 100%, crazy to install gimp and darktable via snaps, and not being able to print (the print option is just not there, because they’re snaps and somehow they haven’t implemented that for these apps). As an artist who sells prints, this makes the whole distro completely and utterly USELESS to me. Sure, they can be found as deb packages too, but they’re older. And Firefox is also sandboxed. And when I installed Chromium from the command line as a deb, it OVERWROTE my wish, and installed Chromium as a snap too.

So, no ubuntu for me. The only advantage it has is that many third party apps (usually commercial ones) that release binary tarballs or appimages have tested with ubuntu and they usually work well (minus davinci resolve). I don’t have a big trouble with appimages as they’re generally smaller than the kde/gnome frameworks that flatpaks/snaps use, and they’re one file-delete away from getting rid of them completely. They’re just more straightforward.

Debian-Testing (Trixie) is the way to go. It’s a rolling release, but it’s very stable, because packages end up there after being tested in Sid (their unstable rolling release). Whatever makes it out of Trixie, ends up on the normal Debian. I’ve been running it since April without any breakages.

It’s in the debian repos, i installed it, but it doesn’t show up in the xfce applet list. As for the gtk/wm themes linked abov, they’re not downloadable apparently from the website they’re linked.

But how do you put the menu bar in the panel? I don’t see any such xfce plugin anywhere, neither you’re mentioning it. That’s the stickiest point trying to emulate Mac.

There are various tools (2-3 of them) but they’re all different ones and don’t work with eachother. Usually, a parent needs an easy to use panel to set screentimes, blocked sites, and which apps are allowed or not (and possibly a checkbox to allow the games subcategory every weekend). But all these tools, while exist, are separate and difficult to either install or make work properly.

I recently did a bug report at Linux Mint to create such an admin panel. While this was a feature request, I presented it as a bug, arguing that because of Mint’s unique position as a “home” or “first” distro to new users, its absence is more like a bug. To my surprise, the creator of Mint, while not replying anything additionally, he assigned it a bug status, as if he agreed with the argument. So we might see something like it on Mint, but not for a couple of years yet… By that time you might not need it anymore, but I believe it’ll come eventually to Linux too.

For DaVinci Resolve, you will need an nvidia gpu, even their amd support is half-ar3ed, and intel doesn’t work at all (they don’t support it under linux, while they do on windows). So you need to decide if you’re going to use resolve, or kdenlive (that works with everything, since it’s not really accelerated – it’s slower (their acceleration is buggy)). However, if you’re going with nvidia, you will probably experience problems on the everyday desktop. So I’d suggest an amd gpu and cpu possibly.

Alternatively, just get a refurbished Dell laptop, or an older Zenbook. These usually work great with Linux.

Yep, I run these, especially since I have a couple of raspberry pis, that you can’t do without these.