Installing Linux on Chromebook
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I figured this would be possible. There are a few things I'm missing right now on ChromeOS but having the option to load quite a few different Linux installs and switch back and forth quickly, I think I'm going to be doing this soon. Here's a video showing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS running on my exact model:
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Video has an errored out.
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@thegillion said:
Video has an errored out.
Yeah, I was wondering about that...
@Bill-Kindle , might want to post a new link.
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Luckily you got an x86 Chromebook so way easier to do that. The ARM ones are much harder to mess with.
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link fixed, I'm gone for the next few days.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
link fixed, I'm gone for the next few days.
WHAT?! WHERE?!?!? TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The lunatics are running the asylum.
And that's different from the norm...how??
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Bill, where are you going?
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Too late.
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wait where is the install video. I would so by a chrome box for this as my dell laptop is running linux
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@thegillion you might want to look into battery life first. I bet it's a lot less when using full linux instead of the ChromeOS only.
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I doubt too much different. Same basic workload. Same basic drivers.
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I think I read that it's on average two hours less battery life than the ChromeOS when using ubuntu. Most people are claiming close to 10hours with chrome os and around 8 hours with ubuntu
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I think I read that it's on average two hours less battery life than the ChromeOS when using ubuntu. Most people are claiming close to 10hours with chrome os and around 8 hours with ubuntu
I doubt that it is Ubuntu. Most likely it is the Unity GUI. Install with XFCE and I bet you see something very different.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I think I read that it's on average two hours less battery life than the ChromeOS when using ubuntu. Most people are claiming close to 10hours with chrome os and around 8 hours with ubuntu
I still think 8 hours is good for the price of a Chrome Book
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It really is. Those things are great value.
