For this article, I used a 2013 Lenovo ThinkPad X240, borrowed from our IT department’s stash of decommissioned laptops. This 12.5-inch touchscreen laptop is long in the tooth by today’s standards, mostly due to a spinning-platter hard disk drive—when working within Windows 8.1, the syst...
CloudReady is an open source derivation of Google's Chrome OS. Chrome OS is a stripped down version of Linux that runs just a single app: Chrome. Most computers actually run Chrome OS faster than any other operating system. The downside is that some websites won't work properly---unless ...
If Windows seems a little slow on your laptop, you could think aboutswitching to a Linux distrowith lighter resource usage. But if you’re a Google user, there’s a better option: Chromebooks. You couldbuy a new Chromebook, but there’s a way you can turn an old laptop into a Chrome...
You can change the value next to "nodeName" to assign the node any name you wish, like "my_laptop", to make it easier to recognize and manage what runs where. Next to "serverIP", enter the IP of the PC on which you run the Tdarr server. As the "serverPort", enter "8266". ...
Laptop turn on and turn off and turn on again after pressing power button the light next to the charging cable blinks in almost random succession. The power button blinks three times and then pauses then repeats. I've tried holding the power butto...
I am switching the operating system on my IdeaPad 330 15ast 81d6 from Windows 10 to Arch Linux. I get “tpm_crb MSFT0101:00 can’t request region for resource” upon startup. Part of the 8GB of memory is blocked as a result (6.7GB available). ...
(Software AP) on any computer or laptop running Linux and equipped with a wireless adapter. You can use this access point (hotspot) to create a wireless local network in a small office or at home, or to share mobile Internet with other devices. In this example, we are using a laptop ...
This could mean you could dig out an old Windows 10 laptop, log in, and start streaming Halo Infinite when it finally launches later this year. It could also prove useful for people who have gaming PCs that are already more powerful than the Xbox Series X. Cloud gaming is part of...
USB drive. This image is live, meaning it can be booted and run directly from the USB stick without actually being installed, but to get the best impression it is recommended that it be installed to the laptop. Note that this will wipe everything off the laptop so be prepared for that....
My laptop has a light showing the GPU usage (white when the dedicated NVIDIA GPU is turned off, orange when is turned on). With Windows the power management between Intel and NVIDIA is working fine. In Linux there are two scenarios: ...