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Friend of mine has an HP Stream (13?) from years ago. He got in touch the other week when he started getting error messages for installing VLC, turns out the poor 32GB onboard storage had about 8 bits left on a Windows 10 installation - presumably a release that's now end of life, or it certainly can't update itself even if it isn't. I got him to uninstall some stuff and run the Windows cleanup utility but these are obviously only temporary mitigations. Longer term he needs either a Linux distro or ChromeOS Flex. He wants to store music and some video locally on the onboard storage. ChromeOS is the obvious choice, but I don't know what apps/extensions or whatever it uses to play local media or if that works as it does on Windows. Can anyone comment?
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cruft posted:You can use VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-chromeos.html Thanks, I'll bear this in mind. Any recommendations for music players on ChromeOS?
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May 17, 2024 21:49
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cruft posted:I use PlexAmp for my Plex media, and the built-in thing for stuff I've downloaded to the MicroSD card. But you can run a whole bunch of Android apps on a Chromebook, so you've got pantloads to choose from. Thank you kind goon. I think I'll try Winamp for the nostalgia.
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