ptitet / potato

Little utility to boost your potato PC

🥔 Potato

Potato is a little utility script to boost yout potato PC / laptop.

This is to be taken as a joke of course, the main purpose of this script is to display funny fake logs of installing weird features that are totally useless or impossible.

Install

Simply run the install script:

> sudo ./install

This will copy potato in /usr/local/bin/, which should be in your PATH. If not, simply run the following:

> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

After that, potato is ready to use ! You can now head over the how to use section.

Force / Reinstall

If you want to overwrite any existing installation of potato, simply use the -f force flag:

> sudo ./install -f

Uninstall

To remove potato, simply delete the potato script located in /usr/local/bin/. The installer can handle this for you by running:

> sudo ./install -r 

How to use

Typing potato with no arguments in your shell will display the global usage :

> potato
Potato laptop booster
Commands:
    add-ram <size>          Increase the amount of ram by <size> Gb
    enable-shell-rtx        Enable ray-traced shell
    increase-resolution     Change screen resolution to 4K
    add-cores               Increase CPU core count
    add-cpu <count>         Add <count> CPUs to the system
    add-gpu                 Add a GPU to the system
    increase-disk <size>    Increase disk space by <size> Tb
    optimize                Run various optimizations

There are several features available, feel free to try them all !