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Or, how to install GalliumOS, a very lightweight Ubuntu-ish Linux OS, on the HP Stream 11 and make it useful again

Note: I no longer have access to an HP Stream 11 laptop, as mine suffered an unfortunate fate at the hands of folding furniture. I can’t answer any questions, beyond what I’ve posted here, about the process of installing a Linux OS or troubleshooting it on this device.

But! I do recommend trying a more up-to-date distro, like Ubuntu Budgie or Xubuntu, because it seems they have a wider base of drivers to accomodate the Stream’s somewhat esoteric hardware. Good luck, whatever way you go!

If you want to skip all the prose and get right to installing GalliumOS on the Stream 11, you can do so.

A family friend recently gave my wife and I a laptop. It was not a gift, but a surrender. This laptop, she told my wife, “Just doesn’t work,” and was “a mistake.” I have three pets from a shelter and a weird affection for old laptops, so I took the odd little slab under my wing.

That slab is the HP Stream 11, a small, light, sky-blue thing that is meant to be used as a “cloud laptop.” The pitch from HP is that by using Microsoft’s Office 365, OneDrive cloud storage, and a lightweight, fan-less laptop, you can work from anywhere. Or, as the marketing went in 2014, you can “#WorkFromHappyPlace.”

This is a decent device in theory: Chromebooks for people who want to (have to) work with actual Office apps. In practice, it ran like it was submerged in the kind of tree sap that preserved the mosquitoes in Jurassic Park. I wiped the Stream 11 clean and reinstalled Windows 8.1, and it was still not a pleasant computer to use. I upgraded to Windows 10 during the time that it was free to do so, and it ran no better, if not worse. I removed HP’s pre-installed apps, I used only Microsoft’s built-in Edge browser, and I kept only one or two apps open at a time. Still, apps loaded slowly, and the system monitor constantly showed an overloaded CPU and full booked-up memory. Windows and this little guy just couldn’t work together.

Still, I liked how light and quiet it ran, its battery life was decent. Its spec sheet is decent for a tiny laptop. It had a USB 3.0 port, an HDMI video-out port, an SD card reader, and a webcam. The HP Stream 11 (technically the HP 11-d001dx) could put in work, if someone would let it. I went to find a new OS for it.

First I tried CloudReady, which purports to “turn any computer into a Chromebook.” It got pretty close, but it couldn’t load my trackpad or Wi-Fi drivers (or maybe just the trackpad, I can’t recall). Searching around more, I found that CloudReady seemed to take some of its cues from Arnold the Bat’s custom ChromiumOS builds, so I tried two or three variants of that: regular, “Vanilla,” and “Special Build,” the last one with more obscure third-party drivers baked in. I got all the way to a working Chrome system with working (if extremely weak) Wi-Fi, but the trackpad couldn’t be modified at all―no tap-to-click, sensitivity, nothing.

The unlikely solution: GalliumOS

GalliumOS is a very, very lightweight version of Xubuntu, which is itself a lighter version of Ubuntu, meant to turn your Chromebook into a more full desktop kind of computer. So it’s scaled down, and it’s meant to be used on laptops with small solid-state hard drives and slower, cheaper processors. By some stroke of luck, it works with most of the Stream 11’s hardware.

What you’ll get

GalliumOS is a good-looking Linux OS, and it’s pretty snappy on the Stream 11.

I wrote this entire guide on the Stream, while keeping Chrome (technically Chromium) open with 2-5 tabs open at various times. It has some smart, useful built-in apps: Pidgin for instant messaging, VLC for playing every media file on Earth, Simple Scan for scanning, and a few others. I like Mousepad for text editing, because it has color schemes and Markdown support. If you want, you can install nearly any app that works with 64-bit Ubuntu or Xubuntu. I’ve added clients for Slack and Zoom, just in case I have to do some work on this little Streamy. I’ve even added DisplayLink drivers to hook up to a monitor through a USB 3.0 hub at my office.

Remarkably, GalliumOS works pretty well on the HP Stream 11, with a few notes and tweaks:

Dual-booting Windows is possible, but tricky

I’m writing this guide from the point of having given up on Windows. You could still dual-boot Windows by shrinking its partition, or re-installing it on, say, 20 GB of the Stream’s 32 GB drive. I think Windows 8/10 will be squeezed for space, but if you want to keep your access to Office or another Windows app, you can follow this guide up until the GalliumOS installation process, where you’ll opt for dual-booting instead of full-wiping.

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Wi-Fi adapter

One “tweak” I highly recommend is buying a $9 USB Wi-Fi adapter. The Broadcom Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip inside the Stream 11 is not only a rare variant, but made by a company that does not distribute its firmware outside official Windows drivers. I can get the Wi-Fi inside the Stream 11 working, but it’s very weak in range, and drops out on occasion. Using the internal Wi-Fi more than one room away from the router in my house is very dicey. Getting the Edimax adapter working is not just a double-click procedure, but at least I know it’s working, and it works a good deal better than the internal circuitry (which is unusual, but so is installing Linux!).

You might already have a USB Wi-Fi adapter on-hand, and it might work great the first time you plug it into your reborn Stream. Good deal, if so! If you feel like giving up one of your two USB ports is too much, you can always grab a $10 USB 3.0 4-port hub while you’re buying that $9 Wi-Fi adapter.

Bluetooth

If you don’t need Bluetooth on your laptop, you can definitely skip the quirky process described further on in this guide.

How to install GalliumOS on the HP Stream 11

What you’ll need

Space on a computer (Stream or other) for a 1.0 GB download
A USB thumb drive, 2 GB or larger (1 GB might cut it, but 2 GB is safe)
USB Wi-FI adapter (optional, but highly recommended; here’s my choice)
Either:
- A second computer, with a working web connection to download the needed files, or
- An ethernet-to-USB adapter, or
- The patience to read through this guide and download all the files you’ll need.

1) First off, back up anything you need to save from your Windows installation on the Stream. You can use the built-in OneDrive cloud sync, a USB thumb or hard drive, wherever you keep useful stuff. Even if you want to try and dual-boot Windows, be prepared for things to go terribly wrong (but optimistic they won’t).

2) Next, download the Bay Trail version of GalliumOS. Keep this file somewhere other than on the USB drive you will use to install Gallium. Bay Trail is the industry/code/nerd name for the Intel processor inside the Stream 11. If you’re comfortable with BitTorrent, you can download the ISO file with the help of others. Otherwise, down

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