I have Fedora on an old Lenovo Chromebook, the on-by-default btrfs compression goes a long way on that 16GB eMMC
How much of a PIA is it to install Linux on a Chromebook? I’m looking for a small laptop and Chromebooks are the perfect size.
in my experience, a major pain… and while I did technically get it working on one, the audio and SD card never worked on one, and the other one required a fresh reinstall every reboot for some reason i could never figure out. Gave up on both and reinstalled the original OS.
They werent mine, so usability was more important than tinkering.
For my Acer C740, I recall it being really simple.
The instructions were easy to understand and only had a few steps.
I removed a physical write-protect screw, booted to developer mode or something, ran a command in a terminal, and then it either flashed a new BIOS or I booted a Linux USB and flashed a new BIOS.
Either way, it’s a regular computer now.
I can pop in any USB drive and boot whatever EFI-compatible OS I want.
Watch the hard drive space. Chromebooks are supposed to be mostly cloud based, so they don’t have much.
Mr Chromebox has a ton of tools and info about this. https://mrchromebox.tech/
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It’s been like 8 years, but a chromebook dual booted with debian+xfce got me through undergrad. There’s a set of scripts out there called “crouton” that made it really easy to do
Yep. I used a Chromebook pixel in college with Linux on it. Worked pretty well
Yeah
I installed EndeavorOS on an old Acer Chromebox and it was pretty straightforward. MrChromebox.tech has everything you need. Of course, compatibility varies so you have to check the list to make sure your Chromebook is supported.
