Author Topic: does anyone have any clue how to rid my annoying laptop of chromium os  (Read 1120 times)

i installed chromium OS on my laptop a few months back because vista was the stufftiest thing imaginable and now i want to play old-school video games and now i cant because im stuck with stuffty chromium.

ive tried installing ubuntu and windows xp and both of them come up with random errors during installation.

i just want to rid my god damn laptop of this monstrosity

how do i fix

is there any way to erase the god damn hard-drive with chromium?

is there any way to erase the god damn hard-drive with chromium?
reformat !

why would you do that
all of their laptops have really stuffty specs and could probably not even play those games you want

why would you do that
all of their laptops have really stuffty specs and could probably not even play those games you want
we can infer from the op that it's not a chromebook of any kind


ive tried installing ubuntu and windows xp and both of them come up with random errors during installation.



How did you go about trying to install? and what was the error?

How did you go about trying to install? and what was the error?

tried to install ubuntu from usb and windows xp from a disk

tried to install ubuntu from usb and windows xp from a disk
and what was the error? or do you not know?

and what was the error? or do you not know?

the windows disk just gave me a BSOD and the ubuntu USB would boot and then stop

what errors does it give you?

the windows disk just gave me a BSOD and the ubuntu USB would boot and then stop
What did you use to put it on the USB? and did you use just the standard linux distro? also, did you run it live and THEN install, or install it directly from USB

My laptop is not stuffty. It can run CS:GO at 60 FPS.

EDIT: whoops, I thought we were talking about something else.

OT: get ubuntu. It's free.

My laptop is not stuffty. It can run CS:GO at 60 FPS.
What does that have to do with anything

My laptop is not stuffty. It can run CS:GO at 60 FPS.

OT: get ubuntu. It's free.
What?

What does that have to do with anything

^Yeah. I could have a 16 core processor at 8 ghz but with a 10 mb graphics card. Would not mac any difference.

What?

^Yeah. I could have a 16 core processor at 8 ghz but with a 10 mb graphics card. Would not mac any difference.
Are you implying that he should purchase a Macintosh Computer?

try installing a linux distro that doesn't suck or a more modern version of windows