Future of Intel Legacy

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Linux works.

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Glad to know.
Thanks for the insight folks! :slight_smile:

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Hey folks, I have another thing that’s very very important to me.
I wonder what are the possible solutions for this,
I have a external ssd that I use on 3 seperate computers, all of those are Intel Legacy, However, when I set up FydeOS on one computer, and turn it on the next day on another one, I see that everything resets and it’s like a fresh install, I’m required to sign back in through my google account and even the android subsystem is required to be re-activated. I haven’t tested chromeOSFlex, as I cannot trust it with any system’s internal drive. Is there any way to disable this sort of reset when FydeOS detects it’s on different hardware?

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Never mind, I saw in another post that this is not possible.
lol, works on FydeOS v20

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@Carrie_Gu @Mayday
I have very important news!
I tested FydeOS Slim today on the intel legacy laptop, (I’m certain the laptop cannot boot intel modern)
I WAS ABLE TO GET ANDROID APPS WORKING!
But there is one caveat, the android settings app doesn’t launch.

Installing apps from FydeOS Store worked!

I tried all this on LIVE USB. Using the “Try it first” option in the installer

Screenshot as proof!

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You can see the blue colored android settings app

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Hmm, tried on another system. The Live USB should reset right? like, act like a fresh install on new hardware? It didn’t, but the android does not work on Intel Xeon Graphics, It’s 2nd/3rd gen, so I guess it’s too old. But v19 android works. It’s an iGPU era one for Xeon.
The live usb android that worked for the system had Intel HD Graphics 5500 I believe.

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@Carrie_Gu @Mayday
This is about the system that worked with android
Output from chrome://gpu
about-gpu-2025-06-13T02-34-30-920Z.txt (40.7 KB)

Screen Recording:
Note: The Android subsystem crashed while screen recording. But games work fine …
A restart often resolves the problems I had with Android. Like “loading (name of app) → eg: Google Play Store which gets stuck and comes back up like nothing happened after a few minutes”

EDIT: The game works fine, I just had to wait a minute. Guess I was impatient during the recording and that caused it to hang up and crash the subsystem.
So, yeah, if you’re lucky I guess, the only caveat is that the whole android system crashes when a single android app crashes. But wait 1 to 5 minutes and you’re back like everything’s fine.

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Here’s an updated screen recording that showcases the gameplay experience.
It’s a game that’s available on Google Play Games Beta on windows and has been optimized for keyboard by the developer, so I haven’t used game dashboard as there are no touch controls shown.
The screen recording doesn’t do justice, but the game runs pretty smooth once the recording was stopped.

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I’m able to get 20 to 30fps consistently, which is playable for me on my hardware.

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@Carrie_Gu
@Mayday
I think maybe OpenGL is the problem? Like maybe a specific version number is required? I think you guys can do some testing on your end,
Let me know what you think.

EDIT: I’ve posted a chrome://gpu output as a .txt file in the previous comments, please have a look at that, I think you might find something that is useful, I hope so.

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I think this has nothing to do with OpenGL; it’s just that the hardware doesn’t meet the required standards. Even if a slim machine is 6th generation or newer, its CPU performance might not be as good as a 5th generation Core, but it still meets the standards for new devices.

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I see. So I’m just a “lucky candidate” who had “modern-enough hardware” to be able to run Android 11.

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@Mayday @Carrie_Gu
One game gave me this

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The name is “Extreme Car Driving Simulator”
Hill Climb Racing 2 barely works, sometimes really well, sometimes not playable, fps is too low.
But Garena Free Fire MAX works Splendid! + I don’t have a reset when I plug in to other computers so win win!
:blush: So happy I switched to FydeOS Slim. I needed Free Fire. + Portability with chrome but no google, Fyde has helped me acheive this! Thanks dev team!

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@Carrie_Gu @Mayday
Isn’t FydeOS supposed to reset itself, like powerwash and treat like a new install on booting in a completely new system?
I didn’t have that happening with FydeOS v20 Slim. Is this expected, or abnormal behaviour because, well as @Mayday said in this post,

FydeOS is designed not to act like this.
So, what’s happening? Is something going wrong?
Or did we acheive this “portablility factor” in v20?