• Guidy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot… didn’t.

    Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.

    Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.

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      2 days ago

      Chromebooks sound good in theory but fall short because kids are great at breaking them and there is a lack of repairability.

      There is also chromeos being kinda ass

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        1 day ago

        Idk about the lack of repairability, those things are really easy and cheap to fix in my experience. They are at least no less repairable than 95% of laptops on the market.

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          Depends on what. The most common thing i see is that the kids mess with either the keyboard and or the screen, which you’re basically forced to scavenge another broken Chromebook for because the replacement parts are pretty much like half the cost of the chromebook

          If it’s something simple then yea I agree, but kids are menaces against their chromebook so damage usually ends up being on the extreme side.

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          I couldn’t bear to make e-waste, so I repaired two c.~2012 era chromebooks earlier this year. The end result was equal parts rewarding experience and a complete was of my time xD. Those sandy bridge cpus are sloooow