r/ChromeOSFlex

I have an old PC (AMD Athlon 3050U(Up to 3.2GHz), 16GB RAM) that is end of life with Windows and I want to convert to Chrome OS Flex. I played with Flex first by booting from a USB drive. The PC had no issues. But when trying to find a web app to play a sample 4k MP4 movie, no luck. It was either a blank screen or it would play, but if a scrolled back or forth in the time line, I would get a blank screen.

Has anyone had success with playing local 4k videos? I understand that VLC can be added, but dont understand how.

I have an old lenovo thinkpad that the windows os is shot on for some reason. There is some kind of error in the windows. I was hoping to save the computer by putting Chrome OS Flex on it to mostly just run some light browsing, email, and use google sheets and docs. Is this something I can do once I download the OS onto a USB?

My acer laptop running chromeos flex asks me to enter my Gmail password then just hangs for a really long time then eventually shuts down

Acer Inspire Laptop (very old) i think core duo or maybe i3 and 4gb ram

Been running it for over a year its so bad. Slow, always crashing, no video player and now it won't even boot or login. Pls recommend some Linux distros that I can sync with messages and Gmail etc thanks