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That is not necessarily true, especially for older Chrombooks. Distros like GalliumOS existed for a reason - many Chromebooks needed drivers not available upstr
by janice1999 2y ago
That is not necessarily true, especially for older Chrombooks. Distros like GalliumOS existed for a reason - many Chromebooks needed drivers not available upstream for things like touchpads. Not all have UEFI Firmware support either. There is a great resource though for people who want to boot regular Linux - MrChromebox[1].
[1] https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/known-issues.html https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/known-issues.html
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIt's true that you'd need drivers for your hardware, but that's not really special; I own plenty of normal x86 PCs with hardware that Linux doesn't have drivers for. That said, AIUI Google is generally pretty good at pushing drivers upstream these days. And the aftermarket UEFI is a great thing - it means that Chromebooks are probably the easiest+cheapest way to have a coreboot machine - but you don't actually need that; the default firmware will, in developer mode, boot any properly-formed image, which is a touch annoying but does in fact let you boot any OS that handles that boot system without replacing the firmware. One of my main machines right now is an ARM chromebook that runs postmarketos on the stock firmware.
- sidewndr46 2y agoWhat hardware does Linux not have drivers for? I'm not counting WiFi cards connected via USB or PCI-E slots. Those don't have anything to do with x86. Also the reason why those commonly don't work is because the underlying hardware is crap.