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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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...
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I've run into that on a couple applications in Crostini. The easy fix is to run...
sudo apt --fix-broken install
That will find and install the missing dependencies. I think the poster could also install Synaptics, which is a GUI install utility which automatically takes care of dependencies.
But no fix for the USB issue that I can find.
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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.
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Crostini is definitely a work in progress but it's been able to handle
most everything I've thrown at it. I have better luck with it now that I've enabled the beta version of ChromeOS. (which is 92.something whereas the stable version is 91.something). The main draw for me is still the Chromebook's battery life. If Crostini is "good enough" to do what I want to do on it, "good enough" is all it really needs to be.