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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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I guess my needs are simpler than yours, I've had decent luck running several applications that I use in Linux — like Trelby, JOE Editor, Fade In, DOSBox-X, Simplenote, Calibre, EMacs (with the Fountain-Mode plugin), Firefox and a few others. I just use the Chrome File Manager, so I haven't tried Caja. I don't know if I'm using Wayland or X11 in Crostini, but whichever it is, it seem to work fine.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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I've looked at the possibility of installing Linux on a Chromebook, but there always seems to be "gotcha's" so, so far, I haven't done it (or even tried). I may do it at some point however. I know if I could get Linux working right on the Chromebook instead of Chrome OS I would be much happier with the little machine.
My old Dell Chromebook 3189 basically has one purpose, for writing, and it seems to work well for that.