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I’m a long time Linux user and I’ve recently switched to a Chromebook (I wanted a huge batter life). I intended to install Linux on it, but ChromeOS is very ma
by haolez 7y ago
I’m a long time Linux user and I’ve recently switched to a Chromebook (I wanted a huge batter life).
I intended to install Linux on it, but ChromeOS is very mature nowadays and it supports both Android and Linux apps (even graphic ones, like VSCode). I’m sticking to it for now. The experience is incredibly polished.
- fragmede 7y agoChromebooks are "Linux" depending on which definition of Linux you want to use, and getting a Linux environment with some root access is possible without disabling Google's code signing - a VM is run, where you have root, with all the overhead that implies. (I hear it's fine when running on powerful hardware, but it's a bad time on cheap Chromebooks.) It's not really root, eg, you can't change the wifi MAC address of the host. (Yes, it's 2019, and I still find myself doing that. Yes it's stupid.) You can disable the code signing and get true root, without having to fully go in and install a desktop Linux, with all that implies (positive and negative). There's a boot screen that can be disabled but that requires opening up the hardware. It's certainly nice, and a viable option these days, but I wanted to give caveats, as it's imperfect. I used to be a Thinkpad person (I miss my trackpoint dearly) but I'm on a Chromebook these days.
- haolez 7y agoBy Linux I meant “Linux DEs”. Thanks for clarifying.