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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Work out-of-the-box on Chromebooks - DESCRIPTION: Turns out you have two choices for a well-built ultralight notebook: a
by Doctor_Fegg 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Work out-of-the-box on Chromebooks
- DESCRIPTION: Turns out you have two choices for a well-built ultralight notebook: a MacBook (£1250) or a Chromebook (£250). The Chromebook can run Ubuntu, and run it well. But right now it requires a specially optimised version of Ubuntu (GalliumOS) and faffing around with firmware versions. If Ubuntu was easy to install on Chromebooks as it is on desktops or regular notebooks, that'd be a massive selling point for the OS.
- komali2 10y agoWhich Chromebook do you mean?
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoMine's an HP 11in G5, FWIW.
- skraelingjar 10y agoAside from having to install software for the back-lit keyboard I have no problems with Ubuntu 16.10 on my 2015 Toshiba Chromebook 2 (other than the part where nothing prevents the battery draining to 0% and everything getting erased). Why do you need Gallium and specific firmware?
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoNew (Bay Trail/Braswell) Chromebooks don't have legacy boot support: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware Xorg doesn't initialise the display hardware to a usable state when the machine is running current Chrome OS, requiring firmware rollback: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/320 https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/320 GalliumOS has numerous optimisations for Chromebook hardware: https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS#Why_GalliumOS_as_opposed_to_other_Linux_distros.3F https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS#Why_GalliumOS_as_...