Not really relevant to this video, but I wanted to give you a heart felt thank you. I went through a period of unemployment and depression in 2023, and oddly enough, learning how to build PCs ended up being very important to me during that time. I learned a LOT from E.C. Your patient explanations feel like a lecture period with the prof that everyone hopes to get on their class schedule. You make complicated concepts accessible, without making the basics overly burdensome to those already familiar with the subject. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're awesome, and I'm grateful for your channel. Cheers!
yes i had an interest in SBC but didn't know much , he has done several very helpful video's on different versions that has helped me build a nice little gaming emulator using recall box i also now run and have done for a few months risc on a pi as basically my everyday drive these days and its updating with more and more apps , so his videos helped a great deal
Hey, retired from tech. I deal with a little bit of bi[polar myself. He's pretty good at getting infos in my autistic head. So lovely to see your comment, I am often too shy. His vid on the STAMP CARDPUTER was _very_ infomative, I may have to buy one 😀 🙏
I haven't seen one of these EC videos in 6 years ... just happened to be in my feed for a different TH-cam account. Wow - great to see Christopher is still cranking along .. and the format has not changed, Love it!
Certain OS developers (Microsoft and Apple) simply make their OSes needlessly heavy or require needless hardware upgrades in order to sell more. It's just sad.
Interviewed the guy who runs Fyde a few years ago. (Chinese but lived in the UK for many years.) He struck me as a good dude who cares a lot about what he does. FydeOS is a killer calling card.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Fyde was launched in the UK though I believe Alpha moved back to China because of Brexit, as well as the fact that he was trying to build the Fydetab Duo, which is essentially a Fyde-specific tablet with Linux support. During his interview (search for “fydetab tedium”) He took pains to emphasize that his company's work should not be viewed only through the lens of his national identity. Which is fair, because it too often leads to negative stereotypes and misconceptions.
It is built by Alibaba actually. The Chinese guy runs a covering business. Check the details on UK's gov on the company and you will understand it well.
I remember in France in 2007 I went to a conference called "Internet libre ou minitel 2.0 ?" which was talking about how internet was evolving from us having computers and being able to do stuff independantly and sharing it ourselves through the network, to us having what is more like terminals dependant on the network to be usable. I guess that was kind of visionnary.
Definitely an interesting OS. Happy to see you testing this OS out on the Radxa X4 N100 PC. Wouldn't mind seeing you doing other things with this little PC. Looking forward to your next video!
Yet another opportunity to give older hardware a second life. I personally would prefer a lean LINUX install on older hardware - just a gut feeling as I don't want to rely on an internet connection too much.
As a former Googler in Mountain View and Alphatester for ChromeOS devices, I can tell you that the QA that google puts devices through to MAKE SURE THE PORT OF CHROMEOS IS PERFECT AND THE NETWORK WORKS PERFECTLY is absolutely stunning! They put new chromebooks in a lab rack, after porting the OS, and beat on them for 15 or 30d I cannot remember which! After all - a chromebook is useless if the networking is not perfect. So in my case I'm looking for something to run on a 4GB Acer c720 chromebook (expired) and this looks like it's perfect ...
Wow, I'm gonna have to check this out. They must have some serious programming talent, looks very impressive. Connecting it to an android phone would be amazing. If they get that play store thing fixed. Another great one, thanks Chris.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it's extremely relaxing and satisfying watching your videos, same feeling as watching that 80s guy teaching people how to paint (sorry, I forgot his name). Thank you and keep up with your amazing work!
Intriguing, the way things are going it's getting like the 80s again when there was a raft of systems about only this time things are starting to be much more cross functional and open, thanks for the thorough in-depth post Chris
I've been running this OS on an old Dell laptop since seeing this video and have successfully got the Play Store running along with a load of Android and Linux apps. The hardware is over 10 years old (4th gen i3 with 8Gb of ram) and it absolutely flies! It really has given what would normally be a sluggish and nearly unusable laptop a new lease of life and made it more than capable of keeping up with my far newer laptop. Thanks for this video Chris. Really appreciate the superb content.
I've always thought that there are some nice things about ChromeOS, but the fact that it has to be tied to a Google Account has made me never want to actually use it. Thanks for showing this!
@@adrian2ka46 Nothing to do with being “scared.” If my Google account gets disabled or hacked, I don’t want to be locked out of my device. And there are certainly ways to mitigate Google’s spying if that’s a concern. But for me it’s the same reason I don’t use Microsoft logins for Windows - I don’t want their service integration features, and I don’t want my ability to use my hardware tied to an online account that can stop working at any time for countless reasons.
For me personally I would install a Linux distro, but FydeOS was very approachable for a customer of mine who needed a older laptop revived and was already used to ChromeOS.
This is an interesting OS and shows a lot of promising features such as Linux subsystem so that I can run my Arch Linux apps. Clearly I must live under a rock because I have never heard of this. I'm going to bang around on my own SBC and check into more of its features. Beautiful video as always!
You need to register your device ID to your google profile account. That way the playstore will work. Its not a swift process but can be done and FydeOS explains how to do so on their forums.
Thank you very much for your videos! I installed FydeOS on a 3rd gen Intel laptop with 4 GB RAM, and the performance is surprising! I updated my other laptop to Windows 11 with unsupported hardware. Loving both machines!
Very intersting, thanks.. I know this would make videos too long but I'd be interested in some quick installs/demos/caveats/problems of it on lower end hardware, video/youtube playback especially. Maybe a future video?
"Hello there! Background Man back again." The best line in the whole video. Anyway, FydeOS is a very interesting operating system, but it does have a long way to go. I know the paid stuff helps keep the developers' lights on and food on their tables. That I respect, but I feel that some folks may have a problem with it. Anyway, thanks for another great demonstration and for showing us some ducks! 🦆
On Android TV, some apps only appear in portrait, similar to what you observed in your review. I used to get around it by running an app just prior called Force Orientation. Might be worth a shot in this case.
I've heard about FydeOS a while ago when first versions were released. Since then it was pretty quiet around it so I thought it died. It's nice to know it's still around and kicking. The pay for upgrade of major version is not such pain since it is android and many users are behind few version of android anyway.
There is one thing that is wrong in this video. The fydeOS in USB is not actually portable, it only remembers your section when you plug the USB into the same computer, if you switch computers, everything will be wiped out. If you already plugged in another computer then when you come back to the computer you saved your section it will also be wiped out. That's all I remembered 1 year ago, I don't know if it changed now.
Very interested! I can't wait to see what the next "Windows" will be.. I can just feel it in the "wind" that major changes are coming in our world of Computers!!! Keep up this great work Mr. Barnatt!!
The Play Protect thing requires running a command as root and registering the resulting serial on a Google site... it's a shame Fyde won't make that easier. Or at least more guided.
Thank you for a well produced and informative video…. I appreciate the work you put in to create a comprehensive video on interesting topics.. well done! 😊
I'm a great fan of your vlog, Dr. Barnatt, and I find almost everything I do to be both useful and interesting. So I've tried this FydeOS on a small Asus Celeron laptop with a trackpad. I experienced driver issues with both the keyboard and trackpad immediately upon startup. I had to do a hard restart to get past that. And after plugging in a USB keyboard and mouse, which worked, I also couldn't get it to connect to wifi. I find that very surprising, since I almost never experience connection issues with any other kind of device. I got past that by hard-wiring via an Ethernet cable. I also found the initial download to be confusing for the Intel choices, and of course, I downloaded the wrong one the first time. It wouldn't even boot with that. Perhaps my expectations are unrealistic, but even though I got it to work finally in demo mode, the problems I encountered convinced me to not install it, either as a stand-alone, or dual-boot option, since there is also no obvious way to undo it. With all those rough edges, I think that would be a high probability. Thank you for your video on this interesting alternative, sir, but in my humble opinion, at least for me, it is not yet ready for prime-time. It's lack of full support for the Android Google Play-Store was the final blow.
Sorry to hear that FydeOS did not work for your. But it certainly won't it you use the wrong version! :) It may be that the computer you are using is unsupported -- there are not versions of FydeOS for all PCs, as the downloads and video indicate.
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks to your advise and video, I did actually get it to work in demo-mode after getting past the installation and driver issues by using the work-arounds I explained. None of the problems I encountered were in any way caused by your information. I simply concluded that the product could not (yet?) be considered robust enough to make it a part of my daily experience. But as an entirely opposite experience, thanks to you I gratefully use Zorin OS continuously as my rock-solid, totally-reliable, application server and as my primary Linux machine. Trying Fyde OS was a worthwhile use of my time in any case, as I always find your recommendations to be valuable in many ways.
Dear Mr. Barnatt. You are like Bob Ross, but for the IT-Technology. Please keep it going and have fun, and don't forget to keep a closer look ... I will keep a very close look at your Channel. Greetings and best wishes from Germany and also from my Spouse.
I installed this a few weeks ago on old HP laptop with a soldered 32GB hard drive and it worked very well. In fact, it's was a pleasure to use. I do not foresee myself using it for real work, however. It's just a good way of using my otherwise obsolete hardware on the road for connectivity and the odd video. My go to work staple will still be Linux.
FydeOS looks to be a interesting disto. I noticed you got quite a good view count on this video. Looks like YT is finally giving Linux videos more traction.
I definitely want to give this a try because there are some applications I use that only come in an Android app. For example, the baby monitor I used is not of a web interface, only an Android app. I was using a VM of Android x86 but this seems way more up-to-date and better
Although I was already aware of the existence of Fydeos and other variants of ChromiumOS, I was never attracted to that style of web and online work. But seeing that it has already matured so much in the standard PC territory, and seeing that they have a version adapted for my Surface, has given it a new meaning and appeal. It works really well on my Surface Pro 4, and without any esoteric tweaking to any settings.
Reminds me of "RemixOS" - Remember that ARM based MicroPC from a few years ago? They went under because their Buisness Model was based on Selling Hardware around their Hardware, but it was basically a RaspberryPI3 about the size of a Amazon 4K ... they had a good machine, but at that time is when NanoPC Hardware was really flooding the Market so - they got Washed Out. RemixOS was one of the first to install side by side (dualboot) with Windows 10... It was good, but even ChromeOS was a bit new at the time and still had a few Bugs.
I've been using it on my Surface Pro 2017 for months now. Aside a very few hangs at times, it really revived this Surface which was getting BSODs after BSODs on Windows... And it's much more comfortable to use in tablet mode :)
Interesting to hear! :) This video has proved pretty popular in its first 48 hours, which I imagine has placed a strain on the FydeOS hosting. So measures may only be temporary.
this OS is great for All-in-one tablets. I have an old CHUWI that was really slow with win11. I firstly switched to Linux Mint but it wasn't really good, a lot of screen issues and the in-screen keyboard was crap for touch devices. Then i discovered FydeOs, and as soon i installed it, it was great. Everything was good to go, and the tablet became really fast too. I can use all the funcionality of a Chromebook laptop, and all the apps of an Android Tablet. If you have an old bootable tablet/pc, this OS is great. I hope they will mantain FydeOs and make a lot of updates because it's worth it.
Actually used this quite a lot, daily driving it, so to speak. For the most part, it's a very good simple OS, and I honestly do love the UX. That said, there were at least three problems, I ran across, personally: 1.) I've fought more with CRAS, ChromeOS's audio system, far more than I have ever with PulseAudio. The TV I used it with lost audio until I switched between audio sources several times or fiddled with volume. CRAS has little end-user documentation and it looks like there's little I can do on my end as far as a config file or something that I can use to remedy this. One test machine required me to manually switch devices via ALSA on each boot because CRAS keeps choosing the wrong one - it feels like that ought not be for something like this. 2.) Even being able to run Linux and Android does little to help me feel emancipated from Fyde/ChromeOS's intentionally minimalist set up. On the Linux side, I usually have to resort to Flatpaks or something similar to get the software I want, and sometimes that just doesn't work - for example, getting graphics tablets to convey pen pressure didn't seem to work well for me in my experience. Android apps worked well until they didn't. I was using the Android version of Joplin, but it had a habit of freezing up far more in Android subsystem than on my tablets or whatnot. Media playback was a similarly subpar experience. Perhaps I could have configured more, but it was almost to the point where I had to wonder, "why am I just not using a plain Linux distro instead?" 3.) The installer GUI didn't recognize my disks, I ended up having to go through the commandline to get installed. It was a strange hoop to jump through. On the positive side, I had very good experience with Bluetooth and I actually rather love the UX and UI for the most part. I like how it has built-in screen capture functions and ability to stream to other Google devices easily, and even if the Android side isn't perfect, it's way easier than something like waydroid and doesn't feel as scummy as an emulator (as those are often riddled with adware). It's also very lean, all things considered, so if you want a machine that you won't use for anything besides web browsing, this is probably for that lot. That said, I think I'll prefer a lighter Linux to it.
@@BakrAli10 You can absolutely download any APK and install it to the Android subsystem like sideloading. As to whether or not it'll work well, that's less of a guarantee.
Thanks for this. I've been running ChromeOS Flex on an 8 year old Chromebook, but sound and Bluetooth don't work, so I will give FydeOS a try. UPDATE: it works great. Bluetooth works, but no sound from speakers. But now Bluetooth works, I can use a BT speaker
Looking at this cool OS knowing I will never use Windows 11 and apparently Microsoft again, and then hearing "does not work with Nvidia"...and realizing my laptop has a mobile 1650 in it. Oh well, on with Linux next year... Your videos are great! I'm just feeling sad and left out...
Great video but I wish you'd have given us a quick overview of Fyde - how old are they, where are they based, how many people, how many version releases have they done?
Oh wow! This looks better than ChromeOS Flex since we can actually install Android apps!! Thanks for posting about it~~ Will this OS runs well on an Intel Atom CPU tho with 4GB of RAM?
It will depend on which atom chip it is -- specifically whether it is 64-bit (which must be), and when it was released (which will determine its graphics). 4GB of RAM is fine.
Another happy Sunday afternoon with Chris or should I say ‘Background Man’ thank you for sharing this impressive & versatile OS, I’m totally amazed!! I’m looking forward to trying this out on a 4th Gen Intel i3 notebook to see how it performs.
I like it! Might be a good choice for a frugal RaspberryPi-based desktop. On the other hand, one might set up a Linux DE (XFCE or Gnome come to mind) to look and feel that simple, install Chromium and have something quite similar. The Android compatibility is nice, though.
I didn't see a disclaimer, amd find it interesting that this video wasn't sponsored. Nice job finding them without them having reached out first! Are users still married to the Chrome browser with this?
I never do sponsored content, so no disclaimer. Users are not married to the Chrome browser, which is not installed! :) The browser here is Chromium, not Chrome -- and they are very different. Chromium is an open source piece of software on which many other browsers are based, including Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge, both of which are proprietary.
@@ExplainingComputers thanks for the reply! Are you married to the Chromium browser, or do I have the freedom of installing something else that works with, say, Linux?
@@clarkcant Well, Linux certainly has other browsers to choose from, like firefox, librewolf, brave... You should be able to get those through the linux subsystem, but I don't know for sure myself, since I haven't used fydeOs before.
Nice! It would be interesting to be able to convert a native ChromeOS hardware into this. If a PC can boot from USB and does not have the classic limitations of Chromebooks, a native Linux distribution is better.
Great content as always, Chris. It's always a pleasure to start a new week by watching your videos! Question to you, or anyone out there willing to answer. I got a few old laptops with Pentium or Celeron M processors, DDR2 RAM of 1GB at most, with some of them still running IDE drives, and I wonder if FydeOS would be a good choice. I intend to give these away, could help someone get in touch if not outright introduced to technology as a whole. Maybe a RAM upgrade would help, but finding DDR2 modules is terribly uncommon where I live, for laptops it's even worse. At any rate, cheers once again. :)
For these you need a lightweight Linux distro, and one that still has a 32-bit version available (eg as Debian does). So something like the Puppy distro BookwormPup32 is a possibility (which needs 1GB RAM minimum). Sadly, the problem is that many websites are now very resource heavy, so even if you can get a distro running on a distro with 1GB of RAM, what you can practically do with it (at least online) is very limited (the browser tab I have open that I'm typing in now uses 427MB).
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you kindly once again, Chris. I see the most sensible way forward would be to find some RAM modules, if I can. However, once again I would like to ask you to take a look at the Android x86 projects out there, because I myself ran LineageOS 14 on my Acer Aspire from 2015, with 6GB of RAM, for about 2 years, all because I just had enough with Windows 10 at the time, and it did prove to be quite a good user experience. Using the Kiwi Browser's desktop mode, I was able to browse the web just fine, all under 2GB of RAM used. I wish you a great rest of your evening, and a good weekend. :)
Another fantastic video, installed on spare mini pc all set up including play store, superb just need to get a video capture app as OBS wont run in linux container, hopefully i will find alternative
Great vid. This is super clean. A terminal. Maybe F-droid works. I guess a comparison is Fedora Siverblue, an immutable OS also using overlay fs, but honestly, this looks simple. I assume this will consume entire drives, no partitions, like Silverblue.
I mean, it's hard work creating upgrades and new integrations, developers have to eat, its 1/5th of a windows key, there's no advertising and minimal bloat, what's not to love?
Not really relevant to this video, but I wanted to give you a heart felt thank you. I went through a period of unemployment and depression in 2023, and oddly enough, learning how to build PCs ended up being very important to me during that time.
I learned a LOT from E.C. Your patient explanations feel like a lecture period with the prof that everyone hopes to get on their class schedule. You make complicated concepts accessible, without making the basics overly burdensome to those already familiar with the subject.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're awesome, and I'm grateful for your channel. Cheers!
😊 his videos are very calming, when I'm freaking out about life and future
yes i had an interest in SBC but didn't know much , he has done several very helpful video's on different versions that has helped me build a nice little gaming emulator using recall box
i also now run and have done for a few months risc on a pi as basically my everyday drive these days and its updating with more and more apps , so his videos helped a great deal
I hope he sees this
Hey, retired from tech. I deal with a little bit of bi[polar myself.
He's pretty good at getting infos in my autistic head.
So lovely to see your comment, I am often too shy.
His vid on the STAMP CARDPUTER was _very_ infomative, I may have to buy one 😀
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I haven't seen one of these EC videos in 6 years ... just happened to be in my feed for a different TH-cam account. Wow - great to see Christopher is still cranking along .. and the format has not changed, Love it!
One of the rare examples of a native speaker really speaking the English I learned in school in the 80. Very satisfying, indeed. And very interesting
Do you say "very" really low and slow too?
I speak with a verrry similar accent too! 😂
He learned it in school in the 80s himself. It's called Received Pronounciation.
I really like RP, it's so clear and easy to understand for nonnative speakers. It also has a classic vibe which is quite relaxing.
@@MrHyde911 Me too, it is a work of art and civilization.
Installed this on a 10 year old laptop 2 months ago and was surprisingly good
Certain OS developers (Microsoft and Apple) simply make their OSes needlessly heavy or require needless hardware upgrades in order to sell more. It's just sad.
you can boot it from a flash drive and it runs fasten than windows 10 on an ssd. it never seizes to amaze me
ooo i have a 10 year old chromebook, ill see if i can install this os to it! :0
As a tech support guy, I recommend fyde OS if you want the flexibility, but it's usually rock solid too
@@Jorge.ALXNDR ceases*
I hadn't heard of FydeOS until now. Looks interesting.
I have to point out that "fideos" in Spanish means "noodles"
Mmmm, noodles. My favorite kind of noodles are the Buldak ones. 😋
Explains some of my search results 😂
What's that supasta mean?
@WiseAcres-g7z You've got this far so obviously no issues
Native speaker here. Wouldn't have made the association if you didn't point it out. Now it's tainted forever. I hate you.
Interviewed the guy who runs Fyde a few years ago. (Chinese but lived in the UK for many years.) He struck me as a good dude who cares a lot about what he does.
FydeOS is a killer calling card.
Seems like the way the Via browser operates. More made for Chinese users than for international users, and thus has idiosyncrasies.
Hey speaking of, what about Deepin?
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Fyde was launched in the UK though I believe Alpha moved back to China because of Brexit, as well as the fact that he was trying to build the Fydetab Duo, which is essentially a Fyde-specific tablet with Linux support.
During his interview (search for “fydetab tedium”) He took pains to emphasize that his company's work should not be viewed only through the lens of his national identity.
Which is fair, because it too often leads to negative stereotypes and misconceptions.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Deepin is more distinctly Chinese in style and focus than Fyde is. Much closer to the point you're getting at I would say.
It is built by Alibaba actually. The Chinese guy runs a covering business. Check the details on UK's gov on the company and you will understand it well.
I remember in France in 2007 I went to a conference called "Internet libre ou minitel 2.0 ?" which was talking about how internet was evolving from us having computers and being able to do stuff independantly and sharing it ourselves through the network, to us having what is more like terminals dependant on the network to be usable. I guess that was kind of visionnary.
What an awful prospect.....but yes i agree. And when we are not docile, the government can cut us off.
Thank you Chris for the coverage! Quick tip: turn on "developer mode" in the OS Settings then the Play Store will work! Hope this could help anyone
Thanks. THIS is why I always read through the comments.
Thanks for the handy tip most helpful :)
@@Chris.Brisson You mean you don't read through them to see who claims to be 'FIRST'?
@@Chris.Brisson LOL, damn right.
wow, awesome advice.
Definitely an interesting OS. Happy to see you testing this OS out on the Radxa X4 N100 PC. Wouldn't mind seeing you doing other things with this little PC. Looking forward to your next video!
Greetings Perry. I'm sure that I'll return to the Radxa X4.
@@ExplainingComputers Awesome!
Yet another opportunity to give older hardware a second life. I personally would prefer a lean LINUX install on older hardware - just a gut feeling as I don't want to rely on an internet connection too much.
I prefer Chrome OS Flex but it's largely a matter of taste.
I agree. Have Xubuntu 24.04 on my all in one Emachine from 2011 and it runs like a modern, yesterday purchased computer.
As mentioned in the video, it can't run on 2nd gen and older hardware.
It IS as constrained as ChromeOS is so something like an 2004 laptop won't work with it.
As a former Googler in Mountain View and Alphatester for ChromeOS devices, I can tell you that the QA that google puts devices through to MAKE SURE THE PORT OF CHROMEOS IS PERFECT AND THE NETWORK WORKS PERFECTLY is absolutely stunning! They put new chromebooks in a lab rack, after porting the OS, and beat on them for 15 or 30d I cannot remember which! After all - a chromebook is useless if the networking is not perfect. So in my case I'm looking for something to run on a 4GB Acer c720 chromebook (expired) and this looks like it's perfect ...
on my budget acer aspire it runs fantastically and it actually improved battery life significantly.
What's the longest you've gone on the battery?
Wow, I'm gonna have to check this out. They must have some serious programming talent, looks very impressive. Connecting it to an android phone would be amazing. If they get that play store thing fixed. Another great one, thanks Chris.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it's extremely relaxing and satisfying watching your videos, same feeling as watching that 80s guy teaching people how to paint (sorry, I forgot his name).
Thank you and keep up with your amazing work!
Thank you so much 😀
Intriguing, the way things are going it's getting like the 80s again when there was a raft of systems about only this time things are starting to be much more cross functional and open, thanks for the thorough in-depth post Chris
I've been running this OS on an old Dell laptop since seeing this video and have successfully got the Play Store running along with a load of Android and Linux apps. The hardware is over 10 years old (4th gen i3 with 8Gb of ram) and it absolutely flies! It really has given what would normally be a sluggish and nearly unusable laptop a new lease of life and made it more than capable of keeping up with my far newer laptop.
Thanks for this video Chris. Really appreciate the superb content.
I've always thought that there are some nice things about ChromeOS, but the fact that it has to be tied to a Google Account has made me never want to actually use it. Thanks for showing this!
Why so scared. They know what u do and search even if u dontt use google at all. Just having an internet connection gives them anything they want
@@adrian2ka46 Nothing to do with being “scared.” If my Google account gets disabled or hacked, I don’t want to be locked out of my device. And there are certainly ways to mitigate Google’s spying if that’s a concern. But for me it’s the same reason I don’t use Microsoft logins for Windows - I don’t want their service integration features, and I don’t want my ability to use my hardware tied to an online account that can stop working at any time for countless reasons.
I'd like to try this on my eight year old Lenovo X1 Yoga laptop. Access to Android apps looks good. Thanks for another great video Chris. 😎👍
For me personally I would install a Linux distro, but FydeOS was very approachable for a customer of mine who needed a older laptop revived and was already used to ChromeOS.
Exactly -- it depends on the user.
This is an interesting OS and shows a lot of promising features such as Linux subsystem so that I can run my Arch Linux apps. Clearly I must live under a rock because I have never heard of this. I'm going to bang around on my own SBC and check into more of its features. Beautiful video as always!
Good luck trying it out -- FydeOS works very well on the supported SBCs.
@@ExplainingComputersis it open source ?
You need to register your device ID to your google profile account. That way the playstore will work. Its not a swift process but can be done and FydeOS explains how to do so on their forums.
Nice, cheers for that!
@@leeallen2521 check fyde community they have a post about it
Why use Play Store when you can use Aurora
@@Ryu_R. no clue... I use apkpure most of the times
@@CaseyD-mu5kl Use them on your phone then ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯
I have a couple of old Yoga 11e chromebooks, this seems like a great OS to bring them back to life.
Yes, this may well work, as I believe the Yoga 11e models have a 64-bit Celeron CPU ad 4GB RAM. So the specs should be fine . . . Good luck! :)
Thank you very much for your videos!
I installed FydeOS on a 3rd gen Intel laptop with 4 GB RAM, and the performance is surprising!
I updated my other laptop to Windows 11 with unsupported hardware. Loving both machines!
This is all great to hear. :)
Very intersting, thanks.. I know this would make videos too long but I'd be interested in some quick installs/demos/caveats/problems of it on lower end hardware, video/youtube playback especially. Maybe a future video?
Thanks for this. Certainly an idea for a future video, noted. :)
That wallpaper looks like a screenshot straight out of No Man’s Sky. It even has the cosmonaut in his default orange spacesuit.
I've been experimenting a lot with linux distros latetly and I have to admit it, THIS ONE got my full attention! Thanks once again Christopher!
This is the only and best alternative to Chrome as of now.. it's great
This looks like a perfect OS for my grandma's old laptop which struggles with modern Windows versions, definitely going to try it
That certainly looks like a contender. Performance and Software compatibility wise.
Will give her try tomorrow.
Onelove 💙
Amazing Chris, Thanks for another great video! This will come in handy for sure...
Excited to see you covered this ❤
I really enjoyed this. What a versatile operating system! Thanks Chris!😀
Your presentations are the best and clearest out there!
Thanks. :)
Excellent, I have been waiting for future updates on Chromium OS.
I'm more happy it has offline capabilities.
Keep up the Great work 🤟
"Hello there! Background Man back again." The best line in the whole video.
Anyway, FydeOS is a very interesting operating system, but it does have a long way to go. I know the paid stuff helps keep the developers' lights on and food on their tables. That I respect, but I feel that some folks may have a problem with it. Anyway, thanks for another great demonstration and for showing us some ducks! 🦆
I really like their pricing it's not too greedy and the idea to get single-updates for $3 is a great idea. I doubt they can help you much for $15/yr.
Looks nice and clean - thanks for giving us yet another OS choice to beat our heads against the wall to decide from!
Greetings Leslie, nice comment on options overload! :)
So many distros, so little time..
@@ExplainingComputers would you please make a video explaining RAID
Christopher as always being a great teacher. We love your channel man!
Nice to see you opted for Trey Ratcliff's photo for the desktop 😍
this looks extremly polished! ive always wanted to look into chromeOS but i might just look into fideOS instead!
Thank you Chris for another great preview! FydeOS looks very interesting.
On Android TV, some apps only appear in portrait, similar to what you observed in your review. I used to get around it by running an app just prior called Force Orientation. Might be worth a shot in this case.
Perfect video production. Fantastic technology too!
Clever. I'll dig out my MiniPC that I bought on an a US Black Friday and give it a try.
Another really informative video Chris, I'd never even heard of FydeOS before!
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I've heard about FydeOS a while ago when first versions were released. Since then it was pretty quiet around it so I thought it died. It's nice to know it's still around and kicking.
The pay for upgrade of major version is not such pain since it is android and many users are behind few version of android anyway.
There is one thing that is wrong in this video. The fydeOS in USB is not actually portable, it only remembers your section when you plug the USB into the same computer, if you switch computers, everything will be wiped out. If you already plugged in another computer then when you come back to the computer you saved your section it will also be wiped out. That's all I remembered 1 year ago, I don't know if it changed now.
It still is, both on ChromeOS Flex and FydeOS, maybe it because Google's fault?
Very interested! I can't wait to see what the next "Windows" will be.. I can just feel it in the "wind" that major changes are coming in our world of Computers!!! Keep up this great work Mr. Barnatt!!
The Play Protect thing requires running a command as root and registering the resulting serial on a Google site... it's a shame Fyde won't make that easier. Or at least more guided.
well it is very simple, they should just have made a guide
Beautiful ! I didnt know about it, installed it on an USB stick and like it. That the stick itself is persistent is a wonderful bonus 🎉
Result! :)
Thank you from Egypt, dear Chris 😊
Thank you for a well produced and informative video…. I appreciate the work you put in to create a comprehensive video on interesting topics.. well done! 😊
As always, exactly what I expected: A great video about a great ChromiumOS based operating system.
A very interesting OS that you did your usual thorough job of covering.
I'm a great fan of your vlog, Dr. Barnatt, and I find almost everything I do to be both useful and interesting. So I've tried this FydeOS on a small Asus Celeron laptop with a trackpad. I experienced driver issues with both the keyboard and trackpad immediately upon startup. I had to do a hard restart to get past that. And after plugging in a USB keyboard and mouse, which worked, I also couldn't get it to connect to wifi. I find that very surprising, since I almost never experience connection issues with any other kind of device. I got past that by hard-wiring via an Ethernet cable. I also found the initial download to be confusing for the Intel choices, and of course, I downloaded the wrong one the first time. It wouldn't even boot with that. Perhaps my expectations are unrealistic, but even though I got it to work finally in demo mode, the problems I encountered convinced me to not install it, either as a stand-alone, or dual-boot option, since there is also no obvious way to undo it. With all those rough edges, I think that would be a high probability. Thank you for your video on this interesting alternative, sir, but in my humble opinion, at least for me, it is not yet ready for prime-time. It's lack of full support for the Android Google Play-Store was the final blow.
Sorry to hear that FydeOS did not work for your. But it certainly won't it you use the wrong version! :) It may be that the computer you are using is unsupported -- there are not versions of FydeOS for all PCs, as the downloads and video indicate.
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks to your advise and video, I did actually get it to work in demo-mode after getting past the installation and driver issues by using the work-arounds I explained. None of the problems I encountered were in any way caused by your information. I simply concluded that the product could not (yet?) be considered robust enough to make it a part of my daily experience. But as an entirely opposite experience, thanks to you I gratefully use Zorin OS continuously as my rock-solid, totally-reliable, application server and as my primary Linux machine. Trying Fyde OS was a worthwhile use of my time in any case, as I always find your recommendations to be valuable in many ways.
Dear Mr. Barnatt. You are like Bob Ross, but for the IT-Technology.
Please keep it going and have fun, and don't forget to keep a closer look ...
I will keep a very close look at your Channel.
Greetings and best wishes from Germany and also from my Spouse.
Greetings to you both! :)
You deserve millions subscribers, thanks for pointing Linux systems.
I installed this a few weeks ago on old HP laptop with a soldered 32GB hard drive and it worked very well. In fact, it's was a pleasure to use. I do not foresee myself using it for real work, however. It's just a good way of using my otherwise obsolete hardware on the road for connectivity and the odd video. My go to work staple will still be Linux.
Great video. My Radxa ROCK 5 ITX motherboard arrived this week after being unavailable for some time, so I am looking forward to setting it up.
Good luck with your new board. :)
FydeOS looks to be a interesting disto. I noticed you got quite a good view count on this video. Looks like YT is finally giving Linux videos more traction.
Yes, early views have been good on this video! The algorithm remains a mystery.
I definitely want to give this a try because there are some applications I use that only come in an Android app. For example, the baby monitor I used is not of a web interface, only an Android app. I was using a VM of Android x86 but this seems way more up-to-date and better
Very very cool. I've been waiting for a system like this!
Although I was already aware of the existence of Fydeos and other variants of ChromiumOS, I was never attracted to that style of web and online work. But seeing that it has already matured so much in the standard PC territory, and seeing that they have a version adapted for my Surface, has given it a new meaning and appeal.
It works really well on my Surface Pro 4, and without any esoteric tweaking to any settings.
Reminds me of "RemixOS" - Remember that ARM based MicroPC from a few years ago? They went under because their Buisness Model was based on Selling Hardware around their Hardware, but it was basically a RaspberryPI3 about the size of a Amazon 4K ... they had a good machine, but at that time is when NanoPC Hardware was really flooding the Market so - they got Washed Out. RemixOS was one of the first to install side by side (dualboot) with Windows 10... It was good, but even ChromeOS was a bit new at the time and still had a few Bugs.
I've been using it on my Surface Pro 2017 for months now. Aside a very few hangs at times, it really revived this Surface which was getting BSODs after BSODs on Windows... And it's much more comfortable to use in tablet mode :)
Great feedback, thanks for sharing here.
As always, you deliver a thorough and insightful video. Thank You!
Hi EC, always a pleasure to be learning from you every day.
Can I run this on my 2023 iMac 21.5 inches?
It looks very elegant and responsive.
Thanks Chris!
Thanks! Response after this video is apparently so good that the official FydeOS downloads are now rate-limited 😁
Interesting to hear! :) This video has proved pretty popular in its first 48 hours, which I imagine has placed a strain on the FydeOS hosting. So measures may only be temporary.
Always a great surprise and new topics great educational benefit for me. Very nice
Thanks for watching. :)
Another great video! I think i might have a play with this os on a very old nuc i have in my cupboard doing nothing. Thank you.
this OS is great for All-in-one tablets. I have an old CHUWI that was really slow with win11. I firstly switched to Linux Mint but it wasn't really good, a lot of screen issues and the in-screen keyboard was crap for touch devices. Then i discovered FydeOs, and as soon i installed it, it was great. Everything was good to go, and the tablet became really fast too. I can use all the funcionality of a Chromebook laptop, and all the apps of an Android Tablet.
If you have an old bootable tablet/pc, this OS is great. I hope they will mantain FydeOs and make a lot of updates because it's worth it.
Really love the option to install alongside other operating systems.
Actually used this quite a lot, daily driving it, so to speak. For the most part, it's a very good simple OS, and I honestly do love the UX. That said, there were at least three problems, I ran across, personally:
1.) I've fought more with CRAS, ChromeOS's audio system, far more than I have ever with PulseAudio. The TV I used it with lost audio until I switched between audio sources several times or fiddled with volume. CRAS has little end-user documentation and it looks like there's little I can do on my end as far as a config file or something that I can use to remedy this. One test machine required me to manually switch devices via ALSA on each boot because CRAS keeps choosing the wrong one - it feels like that ought not be for something like this.
2.) Even being able to run Linux and Android does little to help me feel emancipated from Fyde/ChromeOS's intentionally minimalist set up. On the Linux side, I usually have to resort to Flatpaks or something similar to get the software I want, and sometimes that just doesn't work - for example, getting graphics tablets to convey pen pressure didn't seem to work well for me in my experience. Android apps worked well until they didn't. I was using the Android version of Joplin, but it had a habit of freezing up far more in Android subsystem than on my tablets or whatnot. Media playback was a similarly subpar experience. Perhaps I could have configured more, but it was almost to the point where I had to wonder, "why am I just not using a plain Linux distro instead?"
3.) The installer GUI didn't recognize my disks, I ended up having to go through the commandline to get installed. It was a strange hoop to jump through.
On the positive side, I had very good experience with Bluetooth and I actually rather love the UX and UI for the most part. I like how it has built-in screen capture functions and ability to stream to other Google devices easily, and even if the Android side isn't perfect, it's way easier than something like waydroid and doesn't feel as scummy as an emulator (as those are often riddled with adware). It's also very lean, all things considered, so if you want a machine that you won't use for anything besides web browsing, this is probably for that lot. That said, I think I'll prefer a lighter Linux to it.
You should be able to change the UX/UI fairly easily since it's a just a Chromium web page
I too had problems with a system that had both a hard drive and a flash drive. I ended up having to disable one of them in the BIOS.
Can you sideload APKs?
Useful post, thanks for sharing.
@@BakrAli10 You can absolutely download any APK and install it to the Android subsystem like sideloading. As to whether or not it'll work well, that's less of a guarantee.
Thank you so much Chris, very interesting project!
Thanks. It gave new life to my 2015 11" Macbook Air. Works great!
Great to hear!
Thanks for this. I've been running ChromeOS Flex on an 8 year old Chromebook, but sound and Bluetooth don't work, so I will give FydeOS a try.
UPDATE: it works great. Bluetooth works, but no sound from speakers. But now Bluetooth works, I can use a BT speaker
This is an excellent option for people like my mother. I set her up on both Ubuntu and Manjaro in the past and she did really well though. ❤
Nice review... the funny thing is the translation of FydeOS to Spanish mean a kind of pasta similar to Tagliately....
Looking at this cool OS knowing I will never use Windows 11 and apparently Microsoft again, and then hearing "does not work with Nvidia"...and realizing my laptop has a mobile 1650 in it. Oh well, on with Linux next year...
Your videos are great! I'm just feeling sad and left out...
This is awesome. Most of us are already familiar with android.
This is what I want. Installing it is more straightforward.
Great video but I wish you'd have given us a quick overview of Fyde - how old are they, where are they based, how many people, how many version releases have they done?
Never heard of, I'm thinking about trying this on an old laptop. I don't even have to install, just try it live first. That is just great!
Oh wow! This looks better than ChromeOS Flex since we can actually install Android apps!! Thanks for posting about it~~ Will this OS runs well on an Intel Atom CPU tho with 4GB of RAM?
It will depend on which atom chip it is -- specifically whether it is 64-bit (which must be), and when it was released (which will determine its graphics). 4GB of RAM is fine.
Excellent, sounds like an interesting option for my raspberry pi 4! Thanks Chris
It is a very good OS on a Pi 4 (or 5), especially if you want good browser-based streaming media playback.
Another happy Sunday afternoon with Chris or should I say ‘Background Man’ thank you for sharing this impressive & versatile OS, I’m totally amazed!! I’m looking forward to trying this out on a 4th Gen Intel i3 notebook to see how it performs.
Hi, Alan! :D
@@Praxibetel-Ix A happy Sunday morning to you! That was another awesome video from Chris, I like the look of Fyde OS one to try out ;)
Good morning! Fyde does sound fine.
Greetings! :)
@@ExplainingComputers Hi, Chris! :)
Woah! I made a distro VERY similar to this about 10 years ago. I was working with CEF at the time and got the idea from Palm's webOS.
That's a unique and interesting OS..
This is impressive, I'm going to try it out soon.
I like it! Might be a good choice for a frugal RaspberryPi-based desktop. On the other hand, one might set up a Linux DE (XFCE or Gnome come to mind) to look and feel that simple, install Chromium and have something quite similar. The Android compatibility is nice, though.
I didn't see a disclaimer, amd find it interesting that this video wasn't sponsored. Nice job finding them without them having reached out first!
Are users still married to the Chrome browser with this?
I never do sponsored content, so no disclaimer. Users are not married to the Chrome browser, which is not installed! :) The browser here is Chromium, not Chrome -- and they are very different. Chromium is an open source piece of software on which many other browsers are based, including Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge, both of which are proprietary.
@@ExplainingComputers thanks for the reply! Are you married to the Chromium browser, or do I have the freedom of installing something else that works with, say, Linux?
@@clarkcant Well, Linux certainly has other browsers to choose from, like firefox, librewolf, brave... You should be able to get those through the linux subsystem, but I don't know for sure myself, since I haven't used fydeOs before.
Great demo as always, thanks for making my day.
Nice! It would be interesting to be able to convert a native ChromeOS hardware into this.
If a PC can boot from USB and does not have the classic limitations of Chromebooks, a native Linux distribution is better.
I love these OS that mix Linux and Android. I want to install on any smartphone!
I ENJOY your videos sir. Keep em coming.
Thanks, will do!
Great content as always, Chris. It's always a pleasure to start a new week by watching your videos!
Question to you, or anyone out there willing to answer. I got a few old laptops with Pentium or Celeron M processors, DDR2 RAM of 1GB at most, with some of them still running IDE drives, and I wonder if FydeOS would be a good choice. I intend to give these away, could help someone get in touch if not outright introduced to technology as a whole. Maybe a RAM upgrade would help, but finding DDR2 modules is terribly uncommon where I live, for laptops it's even worse.
At any rate, cheers once again. :)
For these you need a lightweight Linux distro, and one that still has a 32-bit version available (eg as Debian does). So something like the Puppy distro BookwormPup32 is a possibility (which needs 1GB RAM minimum).
Sadly, the problem is that many websites are now very resource heavy, so even if you can get a distro running on a distro with 1GB of RAM, what you can practically do with it (at least online) is very limited (the browser tab I have open that I'm typing in now uses 427MB).
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you kindly once again, Chris.
I see the most sensible way forward would be to find some RAM modules, if I can.
However, once again I would like to ask you to take a look at the Android x86 projects out there, because I myself ran LineageOS 14 on my Acer Aspire from 2015, with 6GB of RAM, for about 2 years, all because I just had enough with Windows 10 at the time, and it did prove to be quite a good user experience. Using the Kiwi Browser's desktop mode, I was able to browse the web just fine, all under 2GB of RAM used.
I wish you a great rest of your evening, and a good weekend. :)
Another fantastic video, installed on spare mini pc all set up including play store, superb just need to get a video capture app as OBS wont run in linux container, hopefully i will find alternative
Great to hear of your success. Good luck!
Great vid. This is super clean. A terminal. Maybe F-droid works. I guess a comparison is Fedora Siverblue, an immutable OS also using overlay fs, but honestly, this looks simple. I assume this will consume entire drives, no partitions, like Silverblue.
Sweet looks nice indeed Fydeos should be a food idea for my old pc my dad use !
Good work Background Man!
Thanks!
I love their business model. Paying a small sum for major upgrades? An easy yes
I agree. Some are critical of this here, but like you I think it is a good model.
I mean, it's hard work creating upgrades and new integrations, developers have to eat, its 1/5th of a windows key, there's no advertising and minimal bloat, what's not to love?