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I'm wary about getting a Chrome laptop to run Ubuntu on, because (aiui) there is no way to run a kernel on it other than the ChromeOS kernel. I worry that an up

by mooism2 14y ago

I'm wary about getting a Chrome laptop to run Ubuntu on, because (aiui) there is no way to run a kernel on it other than the ChromeOS kernel. I worry that an update to the Ubuntu userspace could cause it to rely on features present in the Ubuntu kernel but not in the ChromeOS kernel (perhaps if Ubuntu was using a more recent version of Linux than ChromeOS was) and thus crash or otherwise be unstable.

mooism2 14y ago
Having said that, I've just seen https://plus.google.com/100479847213284361344/posts/QhmBpn5GNE9 https://plus.google.com/100479847213284361344/posts/QhmBpn5G... and learnt that yes, it is possible to run Ubuntu/etc including kernel on the newest Chromebook. Although “there's no way to set the legacy boot as the default option” so it still sounds a bit of a pain.