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I've been looking for a replacement OS to try over macOS for a while, so I just tried this on for size. 2-year old MBP. Created a boot disk with the Elementary
by jroseattle 10y ago
I've been looking for a replacement OS to try over macOS for a while, so I just tried this on for size.
2-year old MBP. Created a boot disk with the Elementary ISO and started up. Fairly snappy, connected over a USB 3 connection to a 500GB SSD.
First thing I tried to install was Google Chrome. DEBian package. Fail. Google search for others who have tried. Found recent article, followed step-by-step. Failed. :-(
- rcarmo 10y agoI just downloaded the official Chrome .deb and did a sudo dpkg -i foo.deb. Can't understand how that would fail, really. One thing you might try is doing an apt-get install -f, since there might be implicit dependencies depending on the build, and this forces apt to figure them out.
- izacus 10y agoHe tried to install an app on a live system running off of a read-only medium. :)
- rpeden 10y agoJust a quick question to make sure I understand properly: do you mean you tried to install an application while running the ElementaryOS live USB? If so, perhaps that's why it failed? Depending on how the live boot OS is set up, installing new applications may not work at all. Some live USB creator apps I've used give the option of setting aside some space for a writable filesystem that will with with Ubuntu live images (and possibly others). In either case, the best way to get a real sense of how much you like the OS is to do a proper install of it in a VM. The live ISO will mostly just show you if the OS supports your hardware and everything (WiFi, etc.) works.