The easiest way to be sure might be to check it yourself.
If Linux is already installed on these machines, run Hardinfo2. It will tell you specifically how many lanes each slot has. It should also report back on lots of hardware capabilities.
If drives are installed, you can benchmark them yourself.
You never know when some asshole might complain!
On the plus side, if you’re ever looking for a new hobby, it wouldn’t be overly hard to make a real leather cover from cheap scrap leather! :)
Sadly, in the case of plastic fake leather, you can’t make it last longer. It’s designed to look nice when new, and that’s it.
On the plus side, even if it looks like shit, it might still protect what’s inside of it.
It is plastic - typically PVC or polyurethane.
Think of it like this: leather wears in, plastic wears out.
If you carry that in your pocket, it’ll eventually start to peel or flake. You may start to see the fabric backing poke through.
Don’t try to treat it with anything. Oil can’t be absorbed because it’s plastic, not skin. Polish won’t set like it would on leather. You can’t protect the finish. You can clean it with soap and water if it gets dirty.
In that case, no. Like the other responder said, those are just some dependency packages.
Lots of software uses packages made by Gnome. These are simply dependencies for other software you’re installing.
Are you asking if installing them will add the Gnome desktop environment?
And nothing of value was lost.
It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.
I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.
I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.
Attempted satiation of the curse. Probably.
It’s not regulation if they are hateful. It’s abuse.
Still?
Oh yeah, totally correct. But it bills itself as a “gaming distro.”
It worked for Nintendo with Bowser.
You’ve already gotten several good replies, and I’ll add a couple more details that might be related to your use case:
Bazzite is a “gaming distro” with built-in Steam integrations. It’s great if all you do on the machine is game and do gaming-related things, like streaming. It’s what I use on my dedicated gaming PC, under my TV. Things mostly Just Work, and I’ve only had to mess with configuration files when setting up things like wake-on-USB and my custom Network shares.
Gaming and streaming will work on basically any distro. And if you pick a distro based on Debian or Fedora, it should be stable and fairly easy to get used to.
Don’t wipe out Windows yet. Install Linux on a separate partition, or even better a separate drive. That way, you can switch off between them until you’re fully used to Linux. Let yourself transition over a few months. That way, if you struggle to do something in Linux, you can switch back over to Windows and get it done.
Some folks try to change all at once, then get frustrated if they hit a stumbling block. It’s safer to keep Windows as a backup, so you don’t feel trapped if something goes wrong.
I’m sorry your mother died :(
That’s the thing, this isn’t AI slop.
This is using the tools for their intended purpose, rather than trying to use them to replace human-written code.