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Kid_Eternity
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Throbbing Angel
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Phwoar
Nice, I've got the the old model + still use it daily, take it all over and it has held up very well. It's had a few years of being taken all over and other then a crack on the screen (my fault for shutting a pen in it) it is in perfect condition and still gets comments on how small and nicely formed it is. Holds its own speed wise too. This looks like it's just a refresh in the same mould of thinking so I'll definitely consider it as a replacement.
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cybershot
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I didn't know some of these -
8 Useful Chrome OS Touchpad Gestures
Scroll: Place two fingers anywhere on the touchpad and move them up and down to scroll vertically. To scroll horizontally, move two fingers left and right. Note, your page will scroll the direction your fingers are moving, unlike on Windows 10, which uses inverted scrolling.
Zoom: Place two fingers on the touchpad and move them closer and further away from each other to zoom in and out.
Right-click: Tap two fingers on the touchpad or place two fingers on the surface and click.
Back/forward page: To go back to a previous page, swipe to the left with two fingers. To go forward a page, swipe to the right with two fingers.
View all windows:Swipe up or down with three fingers.
Open link in a new tab:Hover over a link and tap with three fingers.
Switch between tabs: Swipe left and right with three fingers.
Close tab: Instead of selecting the "X," you can close a tab by hovering over it and tapping the touchpad with three fingers.
Chrome OS Touchpad Settings
To change your touchpad settings, select the circular icon in the bottom-left corner and search for "Settings." Once you've opened the settings menu, use the search bar or scroll down and press on "Touchpad."
On the next page, you'll be able to enable or disable tap-to-click and tap dragging. You can also select from five different cursor speeds and change to Australian, or inverted, scrolling (a la Windows 10).
Chromebook Touchpad Gestures: How to Navigate Chrome OS Like a Pro
8 Useful Chrome OS Touchpad Gestures
Scroll: Place two fingers anywhere on the touchpad and move them up and down to scroll vertically. To scroll horizontally, move two fingers left and right. Note, your page will scroll the direction your fingers are moving, unlike on Windows 10, which uses inverted scrolling.
Zoom: Place two fingers on the touchpad and move them closer and further away from each other to zoom in and out.
Right-click: Tap two fingers on the touchpad or place two fingers on the surface and click.
Back/forward page: To go back to a previous page, swipe to the left with two fingers. To go forward a page, swipe to the right with two fingers.
View all windows:Swipe up or down with three fingers.
Open link in a new tab:Hover over a link and tap with three fingers.
Switch between tabs: Swipe left and right with three fingers.
Close tab: Instead of selecting the "X," you can close a tab by hovering over it and tapping the touchpad with three fingers.
Chrome OS Touchpad Settings
To change your touchpad settings, select the circular icon in the bottom-left corner and search for "Settings." Once you've opened the settings menu, use the search bar or scroll down and press on "Touchpad."
On the next page, you'll be able to enable or disable tap-to-click and tap dragging. You can also select from five different cursor speeds and change to Australian, or inverted, scrolling (a la Windows 10).
Chromebook Touchpad Gestures: How to Navigate Chrome OS Like a Pro
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Throbbing Angel
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my Chromebook has been displaying a weird recently.
I'll be doing something in one tab/window and it'll just to another open instance of Chrome. No idea why.
I generally have a few instance of Chrome open with a few tabs on each. I also have things on my shelf set to 'open in window', such as Gmail and WhatsApp for example (plus others) and I may have one or two of them open too. I'm running an ASUS Chromebook C302ca, Intel Core M3, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, 12.5"
I've closed off all my extensions and will reintroduce them one by one but wondered if anyone else had seen similar.
...And... I have/had Adblock, Adblock Plus, Ghostery Privacy Badger and NordVPN installed. Too much?
I generally don't have Nord running at home - just when out and about - but all the others and some other extensions running. Any thoughts?
I'll be doing something in one tab/window and it'll just to another open instance of Chrome. No idea why.
I generally have a few instance of Chrome open with a few tabs on each. I also have things on my shelf set to 'open in window', such as Gmail and WhatsApp for example (plus others) and I may have one or two of them open too. I'm running an ASUS Chromebook C302ca, Intel Core M3, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, 12.5"
I've closed off all my extensions and will reintroduce them one by one but wondered if anyone else had seen similar.
...And... I have/had Adblock, Adblock Plus, Ghostery Privacy Badger and NordVPN installed. Too much?
I generally don't have Nord running at home - just when out and about - but all the others and some other extensions running. Any thoughts?
Throbbing Angel
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Right - more weirdness - is this the thread to ask? I ask due to the dearth of replies last time (post above).
After the weirdness in the post above I did a powerwash and reset everything. All good until yesterday.
The strange behaviour described above stopped after the powerwash - yesterday I saw the top inch or so of the browser webpage stop responding. By this I mean that I am unable to click on any links in that top inch or so of the page. I can get around this by using CTRL & + to increase the zoom on the webpage - this takes the links down the page a bit as they enlarge but, as I am sure you can imagine, this is a right royal pain in the butt.
Also if the mouse pointer is in that area, none of the touchpad gestures work.
I have disabled all extensions and apps and this has made no difference.
I can list extensions and apps etc. if any of you think that'd be of use.
Any ideas?
I'm currently trying to force a complete sync of bookmarks, extensions etc. before I perform another powerwash. I'm considering setting up a new Gmail account just to test if there is summat amiss with my account - can't think what, though.
Help?
After the weirdness in the post above I did a powerwash and reset everything. All good until yesterday.
The strange behaviour described above stopped after the powerwash - yesterday I saw the top inch or so of the browser webpage stop responding. By this I mean that I am unable to click on any links in that top inch or so of the page. I can get around this by using CTRL & + to increase the zoom on the webpage - this takes the links down the page a bit as they enlarge but, as I am sure you can imagine, this is a right royal pain in the butt.
Also if the mouse pointer is in that area, none of the touchpad gestures work.
I have disabled all extensions and apps and this has made no difference.
I can list extensions and apps etc. if any of you think that'd be of use.
Any ideas?
I'm currently trying to force a complete sync of bookmarks, extensions etc. before I perform another powerwash. I'm considering setting up a new Gmail account just to test if there is summat amiss with my account - can't think what, though.
Help?
Throbbing Angel
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^^^I sorted this^^^
No idea what caused it - can't remember now if I did a Powerwash - I think I did.
No idea what caused it - can't remember now if I did a Powerwash - I think I did.
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I've had to boot up my Lenovo Yoga laptop after a year or so and fuck me is it rubbish compared to my Chromebook.
I've no idea what it's doing but it's been turned on for ages and it's still fucking about upgrading something or another and demanding endless reboots.
Chunky hefty GB-hogging OSs like Windows - and I include Mac OS here as that also demands update after update - really are yesterday's technology.
Turn on a Chromebook after a year or whatever and it'll be up and running in minutes and as fast as new. If you need a general purpose laptop, I can't recommend this enough: get a Chromebook!
I've no idea what it's doing but it's been turned on for ages and it's still fucking about upgrading something or another and demanding endless reboots.
Chunky hefty GB-hogging OSs like Windows - and I include Mac OS here as that also demands update after update - really are yesterday's technology.
Turn on a Chromebook after a year or whatever and it'll be up and running in minutes and as fast as new. If you need a general purpose laptop, I can't recommend this enough: get a Chromebook!
Throbbing Angel
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Gave up on it yesterday, booted it up half an hour ago and it's still fucking updating shit. I was thinking of using my ThinkPad for DJing as there's loads of advanced DJ programs/controllers on Windows (I've been using my Chromebook as a back up with CDs but that's essentially with just play/stop controls) but I'm thinking I'll just stick to my Chromebook at this rate.
Yep, that's the thing I bloody hate about windows 10.
I still use 8 on my desktop, keep a small W10 tab for when I'm out and about AND need to edit, but my phone is now my main presentation tool.
Chromebooks are on my list of things to take a serious look at next.
Chz
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Does seem a bit fishy. The mrs' Yoga (Stinkpad with a hinge) updated just fine this month. But it's only a year old, so you wouldn't expect too much trouble. Even my main PC, which sometimes has issues due to being one install continually upgraded since Windows 7 was in beta, was okay this month. Sometimes it's just easier to do a fresh "on top" install.
cybershot
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What version of Windows is it? (Home, Enterprise etc)
The problem is 1709 for Home use has gone end of life. So it's forcing 1803 onto you to keep you current. Not sure why it hasn't leap frogged that and gone to 1809, but it's possible your machine has been identified as not ready for 1809 (There's some Intel display driver shit still going on meaning effected machines have a block on 1809)
Feature updates take ages to install, the good news is 1903 will handle this shit better, the bad news, you've got to get to 1903 before you take advantage of it.
Moral of the story is basically, turn on the computer more often or whack another OS on it, but if you're hardly ever using it, even Linux will do this shit to you as well, as Windows essentially just does the same that everyone else has been doing for years now, including ChromeOS. The difference is the ChromeOS footprint is so small, you hardly notice it.
ETA: 1803 goes end of life in November, so expect another feature update being forced upon you at that point.
The problem is 1709 for Home use has gone end of life. So it's forcing 1803 onto you to keep you current. Not sure why it hasn't leap frogged that and gone to 1809, but it's possible your machine has been identified as not ready for 1809 (There's some Intel display driver shit still going on meaning effected machines have a block on 1809)
Feature updates take ages to install, the good news is 1903 will handle this shit better, the bad news, you've got to get to 1903 before you take advantage of it.
Moral of the story is basically, turn on the computer more often or whack another OS on it, but if you're hardly ever using it, even Linux will do this shit to you as well, as Windows essentially just does the same that everyone else has been doing for years now, including ChromeOS. The difference is the ChromeOS footprint is so small, you hardly notice it.
ETA: 1803 goes end of life in November, so expect another feature update being forced upon you at that point.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I agree to an extent, but Microsoft has managed to take what's an annoyance elsewhere and make it a proper embuggerance. I don't really understand how either, because they used to be pretty good at the patching thing once upon a time. Now they look like right proper clowns.
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hiraethified
I've always found that whenever you boot up a Windows machine that hasn't been booted up for aeons, you're always in for a world of pain. It's running W10 Pro, by the way. I've turned it off a couple of times and it might be on its final download.
cybershot
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yep, sadly only Enterprise and education are now under support for 1709.
Windows 10 - release information - Windows Release Information
Regarding the monthly updates, the screen was a bit weird in that it listed the 02-2019 and 04-2019 cumulative updates, because everything in 02-2019 will be in 04-2019. Part of improving things in that aspect was, that you only get one monthly update come down, even if you've had the computer off for months. The same with Flash and Office if you have them installed as well, but that would have all got eliminated anyway once 1803 is on, because you'll no longer be on 1709 so those updates become void.
For what it's worth, you're not the only one who hates this shit.
ETA: corrected second link: Windows 10 1903 Rolling Out Improved Windows Update Controls
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I keep going on about it, but even a cheap Chromebook feels like it's about five years ahead of its Mac/Windows equivalents. You open it. it turns on. It updates in about two minutes. If you lose your laptop and log in with a new one, all your content and apps return just as quickly as you can download them.
cybershot
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ChromeOS just literally has enough OS on it in order run web browser processes essentially. No other services etc etc, but you already know that, hence why it's so freckin fast and can run smoothly on a 16GB eMMC. When you put it into perspective though, ChromeOS still needs minimum 4GB of storage to run the underlying OS and the browser. That's still a lot compared to the days of Windows 3.1!
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Sure, but Chromebooks are about 5,686,585 times faster than a Windows 3.1 machine!
You'll be surprised just how much you can do on a CBook. Mine certainly covers 99% of my laptop needs.
cybershot
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Sure. My Mums HP Stream was utterly shite running Windows, Updates were specially a pain in the arse. Putting Cloudready ChromeOS on it, it flies, has plenty of storage still and does everything she needs.
Sadly I just do too much other stuff with the likes of Photoshop/Premiere Pro and need decent remote access tools in order to use work VPNs and what not, it's just a no go.
If you were someone that didn't mind 'blowing up' your OS every 18 months and reinstalling your core apps, whack Windows Server evaluation on, and just keep re-arming it. No Windows store bloated crap, and loads better control over reboots.
Sadly I just do too much other stuff with the likes of Photoshop/Premiere Pro and need decent remote access tools in order to use work VPNs and what not, it's just a no go.
If you were someone that didn't mind 'blowing up' your OS every 18 months and reinstalling your core apps, whack Windows Server evaluation on, and just keep re-arming it. No Windows store bloated crap, and loads better control over reboots.
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