Or are you just not sure how to spell it, so you inserted a placeholder?

Why did you censor the word “French?”

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.

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.

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?

See, you say that as a Linux user.

Ordinary folks don’t talk or think like Linux people. Nobody understands what a “process” is, let alone what a container is or what isolation means.

And if somebody is used to “pres butan get bacon” anything else is going to sound like gobbledygook.

Also: a modern distro running gnome or KDE is harder to screw up. Folks don’t need to use clunky package managers like Synaptics. As a result, they are less likely to break things.

They’ve been doing this for probably as long as they’ve been in business.

Chuwi has been around for a long time.

I don’t believe the word “trust” has ever been used to describe that company.

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.

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.

It’s not that they aren’t as good, necessarily.

More that the others do less “grey-hat” stuff, and therefore are less likely to cause harm or alter the content they host.

No.

They think that relying on a hostile archive will ultimately harm Wikipedia.

They know the shortcomings of the other options.

So, what you’re saying is, you’re not writing code.

Yes but what kind of soup

This is important

What are you using to create the bootable installer? Rufus may have options to help with this.

Also, MX includes a bunch of system rescue tools. If grub-install doesn’t work by myself, maybe chroot would help?

The MX community forums might be a good place to ask, too. Lots of power users there.