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Originally Posted by rcentros
Yeah, I ran into that. I figured out (or, rather, I found what others had figured out) that the icons had to be copied to a non-home directory (but I still have to do it by hand). I use /usr/share/icons. For *.desktop files I use the /usr/share/applications directory (again, not in the home directory). I'm guessing this is an issue specific to the Chrome OS's implementation of Debian. At any rate, I have my Linux icons showing now.
That said, if you're only going to put a couple Linux applications in Linux under Chrome OS, it should work okay. Personally I would buy a regular (newer, used) laptop and install Linux Mint instead.
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Even then, it needs particular image format and minimal entries or ignored. Google use custom daemons such as garçon and sommelier.
Caja Admin plug-in and other programs that need a password/sudo will fail due Google's secuity model.
Crostini (Debian 12 Linux) has a buggy version of Wayland with X emulation. Some programs won't work, though Libra Office, Gimp, synaptic package manager and Calibre mostly work (no USB MS but there is MTP).
I've used Linux for over 25 years and I gave up. It's intended purely for people developing and testing Android applications using mostly Linux console tools.
It's badly documented. I managed to create an additional container for a separate install of Linux, but you get Crostini by default. Not enough RAM, storage or CPU for the overhead of the VMs and Containers.
Wiped and reinstalled as a Linux netbook (11" screen) it's almost perfect (3.5mm jack doesn't work) except I can't make the media keys be F1 to F10 by default, you need AltGr <media key>. ChromeBook has a stupidly too minimal keyboard. I had to remap 8 keys as AltGr overloads. Caps lock is actually Win-L (Super-L is Linux default) so is now Compose as well as Capslock (external keyboard).
I only paid €150 and got 3 year warrenty S/H from locally CEX. My desktop is a Dell 7030 lunch box with a decent 512G SSD and 4T SATA HDD, actually €130 from CEX.
My Linux server is a desktop PC a local office was junking.