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In fairness, they've enabled Android apps on an awful lot of Chromebooks: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps https:/

In fairness, they've enabled Android apps on an awful lot of Chromebooks: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo... All new Chromebooks support Android apps afaik. What model do you have? Chrome OS is Linux (it runs the Linux kernel) – you mean your Chromebook doesn't yet support the greater Crostini project? https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Crostini https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c... What part of the Quickstart: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Quickstart https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c... doesn't work for you? It says “Make sure you're running at least R72 (released Feb 2019).” Even though there's a lot of abandonware from Google, Android apps and Crostini on Chromebooks are not two of them. In fact, Android apps is one of the migration paths away from Chrome apps, a fact this article fails to mention.

aguyfromnb 7y ago
>Android apps and Crostini on Chromebooks are not two of them. In fact, Android apps is one of the migration paths away from Chrome apps, a fact this article fails to mention. So should someone buy a new Chromebook on the hopes that this new system of apps will continue to be supported down the road? I think once you're burned once, that's hard to buy into.
wazoox 7y ago
It's an ASUS C300M, I bought it around 2015. There is no "Linux (beta)" entry in ChromeOS settings, though it's running version R76, the C300 is listed in the "compatible" list, and it's powerful enough to run Linux applications (dual core x86, 4GB of RAM). I'll have another look but I don't see why it should be any different today than it was last month.

aguyfromnb 7y ago

>Android apps and Crostini on Chromebooks are not two of them. In fact, Android apps is one of the migration paths away from Chrome apps, a fact this article fails to mention. So should someone buy a new Chromebook on the hopes that this new system of apps will continue to be supported down the road? I think once you're burned once, that's hard to buy into.

wazoox 7y ago

It's an ASUS C300M, I bought it around 2015. There is no "Linux (beta)" entry in ChromeOS settings, though it's running version R76, the C300 is listed in the "compatible" list, and it's powerful enough to run Linux applications (dual core x86, 4GB of RAM). I'll have another look but I don't see why it should be any different today than it was last month.