My sister gave me the HP stream 11 laptop...
The main issue with this laptop is that Windows 10 is so fucking bloated that it ends up slowing down a 4GB netbook with a decent mobile processor.
I'm thinking about installing windows 7 ultimate with special pack 1 in order to make it look clean and remove the fucking bloat.
Will that improve this walmart laptop or is this netbook a $200 paperweight?
My sister gave me the HP stream 11 laptop
Brayden Ortiz
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Aiden Thomas
You're best bet is to just remove the bloatware.
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Brody Scott
I don't think you can take that laptop's UEFI BIOS into CSM mode. If you can then sure why not.
Blake Cox
Replying from an HP Stream 13.
I can run W10 without the OS bringing it to a crawl. I will say though that it was blazing fast with Ubuntu. Very easy to install and it had no trouble with the WiFi right from the start.
Anthony Roberts
Even without the bloat, I still fucking hate this OS.
Does Win 7 ult work on a netbook?
It actually just a matter of pressing f10 on boot.
What distro are you using?
Do you think that the stream 11 is very different from the 14 or is it just the screen size?
Joshua Murphy
Win 7 is literally just as bloated and shit stop deluding yourself.
You want something clean get Linux on it or go buy a Chromebook.
Joshua Adams
>It actually just a matter of pressing f10 on boot.
Lol no, there are laptops coming out using newer UEFI versions that drop support for CSM, Surface laptops do this and I've seen some newer cheaper lelnovo and acer laptops do the same, you can install Windows 7 but you'll need to find/create a UEFI version and disable Secure Boot still. If you can't disable Secure Boot (again, some BIOS disable this too) then you're stuck with windows 8 or newer.
Jeremiah Jones
Get fucking rid of Windows. Install Ubuntu (because it's easy to install and it's still Linux), and if at some point in the future you feel like you wanna get more advanced, install something different.
Customize Ubuntu so it doesn't look like shit.
Daniel Cruz
Last one I used was Xubuntu 16.04. Right now I'm running W10 again.
IIRC the 11 and 13 are just size variants but the 14 is a different beast. In any case I've been super happy with my Stream.
Isaac Lopez
What distro should I use then?
I don't want many compatibility problems.
All I have done on this pc is to make the BIOS/UEFI to boot in legacy mode.
Maybe Stream 13 user could give me a hand.
Alright, that sounds good.
Can you give me few pros and cons on ubuntu and some reasons on why not to use win 7?