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One reason to do this is because, fan-less intel Celeron Chromebooks are the most accessible x86 Single Board Computer(SBC) currently available. If you have a
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
One reason to do this is because, fan-less intel Celeron Chromebooks are the most accessible x86 Single Board Computer(SBC) currently available.
If you have a x86 specific workflow, then there are not much choices out there at such low power/price scale e.g. I used one for running a Chromium puppeteer task, as Chromium was nearly unusable in similar or better specced ARM SBCs running Linux.
But that's a one-off example, for almost every headless application an ARM SBC like Raspberry Pi makes more sense.
- freeqaz 6y agoIs that because Chromium isn't as optimized for ARM as it is for x86? Or is it just because the ARM SBCs are lower speed cores? Curious to know more specifically
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoI believe believe both to be the reason, but I'm of opinion that optimization issue for ARM contributes more to this problem than lack of power. Chromebooks ditching ARM seems to add credibility to my suspicion, in spite of ARM chromebooks being more favourable to run Android apps.
- ac29 6y agoOne thing to keep in mind: support for running generic Linux on anything past Braswell (so, 2016 or so) in a Chromebook is pretty much impossible - the replacement firmware doesnt exist, or has major issues like not supporting suspend/resume. Most Apollo Lake and newer Chromebooks support running Debian in a VM inside ChromeOS though - there is quite a bit you can do this way.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoThat's a shame, anyways Crostini has improved a lot, I tested the same workflow mentioned in parent and had no specific issues. But there's no USB-passthrough yet and so using Bluetooth or other USB dependent hardware isn't possible in Crostini yet.