https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=340167&page=2
Here's the link to the end user trying to get Calibre working on his Chromebook. Poor guy. Get package via command line, install (and even compile?
) from command line, get and install missing libraries from command line
And at the end of all that...Calibre can't see the attached e-reader because Crostini is no good with USB...
This comment doesn't reflect on the general discussion in this thread. But it's not for me. I think some people want to play around with this stuff, which is cool. For me, it's a hair-ripping-out-experience because I want to use my device to do tasks quickly, as opposed to tinkering with linux on a chromebook.
A google search on "crostini chromebook sucks" yielded a number of fun reads (for me, at least) that confirmed to me that I got out at the right speed (i.e. lightning fast) (i was in the game before crostini). Again, fun if you want to try and get a chromebook to run Linux, but not so much if you just want to just get a job done. I personally don't really see the point if you can get a cheap refurb Lenovo with more hardware resources, is well supported by drivers etc, and you can install full open Linux, instead of not-as-good (dare i say crappy?) google linux. But chromebooks are light-weight and very very shiny, I'll give them that.