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Nope. In hindsight, I wouldn't do it again. Reasons: Storage is a problem for most chromebooks and the memory chip is soldered onto the board, so cannot upgra
by BatteryMountain 5y ago
Nope.
In hindsight, I wouldn't do it again. Reasons:
Storage is a problem for most chromebooks and the memory chip is soldered onto the board, so cannot upgrade it.
I bought an expensive MicroSD card at the time that is 128GB and can do 100/60 read/write... but the memory card reader seems to be soldered to a Usb 2 header.. thus it tops out at 30mb/s.
The updates to the OS and packages delivered via apt is basically very far behind, and many packages get held back. Kernel stays old too. I'm used to Fedora so it is really itching me that it is so far behind.
Keyboard is not standard: No delete button, no windows key, no function keys. This is a big problem for me and I didn't check the keyboard before I bought it.
A better machine to run linux on in the same manner, is the Lenovo Ideapad (S130-11IGM), it is also a celeron, a 11" screen and supports windows/linux out of the box with a normal bootloader and drivers.
Other than that, a 2017 13" Macbook Air with Fedora also works great.
What I really want is an 11" laptop with a Ryzen 3 without an active cooler (silent machine) + nvme slot + 2 ram slots + backlit keyboard. I don't want anything soldered except the cpu. Display can be 720p or 1080p.