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There's ChrUbuntu, which is easy to install but gives a barely functional trackpad, no sound, and a 75% chance of hanging on wake. Supposedly 13.04 is signific

by brigade 14y ago

There's ChrUbuntu, which is easy to install but gives a barely functional trackpad, no sound, and a 75% chance of hanging on wake. Supposedly 13.04 is significantly better, but upgrading is stupidly hard and I've yet to manage to do so (currently trying to figure out how to work around a known bug in Plymouth.) But even then, OpenGL ES may or may not work yet, and unity apparently doesn't work in 13.04.

ariwilson 14y ago
Those issues have all been fixed (well I never heard of the hanging on wake issue) FYI. http://www.whatthetech.info/samsungchromebook/ http://www.whatthetech.info/samsungchromebook/
- brigade 14y ago
  Not in the default (or default-updated) 12.04 ChrUbuntu install, unless something has changed in the last 6 hours. Also using the Arch files only half fixes the trackpad - using the physical button is still very finicky compared to Chrome OS. The hang on wake issue I see might be "Auto-suspend/closing lid crashes Ubuntu" in your list, which lists no known fix. And your workaround [1] for audio is explicitly dangerous with the stock kernel (I know Marcin Juszkiewicz's kernel for 13.04 has a fix so you won't melt your speakers, but it seems ChrUbuntu hasn't adopted it as of two weeks ago) [1] http://www.whatthetech.info/fixing-sound-chromebook-chrubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-228 http://www.whatthetech.info/fixing-sound-chromebook-chrubunt...
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emidln 14y ago
Unity seems to work on 13.04. Using it now on my C7.
andrewchoi 14y ago
I'm running ChrUbuntu 12.04 on an Acer AC700, and I haven't been having huge issues. Right now the majority of my use on the machine is sshing to more powerful machines, TeX-ing problem sets for class, and a very light amount of Django work. I haven't run into any major problems, other than a general slowness of the system that I'm willing to deal with for freedom from my four pound Dell Latitude. Specifically, I'm not having the issues with the trackpad, the sound, and the hanging on wake. What machine are you running on?
- brigade 14y ago
  Samsung ARM Chromebook. I'm pretty sure all the issues I'm having are specific to that model; x86 Chromebooks should work better with Ubuntu.
pwnna 14y ago
hm... I guess it's not the best idea to repackage it and gift it to people... Darn. It's fairly cheap and it's stylish. Since some of the people I want to gift to will treat this as a primary computer... Oh well.

by brigade 14y ago

ariwilson 14y ago

Those issues have all been fixed (well I never heard of the hanging on wake issue) FYI. http://www.whatthetech.info/samsungchromebook/ http://www.whatthetech.info/samsungchromebook/

brigade 14y ago
Not in the default (or default-updated) 12.04 ChrUbuntu install, unless something has changed in the last 6 hours. Also using the Arch files only half fixes the trackpad - using the physical button is still very finicky compared to Chrome OS. The hang on wake issue I see might be "Auto-suspend/closing lid crashes Ubuntu" in your list, which lists no known fix. And your workaround [1] for audio is explicitly dangerous with the stock kernel (I know Marcin Juszkiewicz's kernel for 13.04 has a fix so you won't melt your speakers, but it seems ChrUbuntu hasn't adopted it as of two weeks ago) [1] http://www.whatthetech.info/fixing-sound-chromebook-chrubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-228 http://www.whatthetech.info/fixing-sound-chromebook-chrubunt...
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emidln 14y ago

Unity seems to work on 13.04. Using it now on my C7.

andrewchoi 14y ago

I'm running ChrUbuntu 12.04 on an Acer AC700, and I haven't been having huge issues. Right now the majority of my use on the machine is sshing to more powerful machines, TeX-ing problem sets for class, and a very light amount of Django work. I haven't run into any major problems, other than a general slowness of the system that I'm willing to deal with for freedom from my four pound Dell Latitude. Specifically, I'm not having the issues with the trackpad, the sound, and the hanging on wake. What machine are you running on?

brigade 14y ago
Samsung ARM Chromebook. I'm pretty sure all the issues I'm having are specific to that model; x86 Chromebooks should work better with Ubuntu.

pwnna 14y ago

hm... I guess it's not the best idea to repackage it and gift it to people... Darn. It's fairly cheap and it's stylish. Since some of the people I want to gift to will treat this as a primary computer... Oh well.