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The best thing about Chromebooks is that they are good machines to put regular Linux on. Still a shame that you have to open the machines up if you want to write to the firmware so you don't have to watch a warning screen everytime you boot it.
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fanny packrat posted:... I managed to add a non-GCP-networked printer to a chromebook, it's not mandatory. Doesn't chromeos use CUPS under the hood? Any printer you get working in linux, you'll be able to get working in chromeos..
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If you want a "cheap" chromebook that actually has something called storage (more than 32GB), is your only option the Lenovo Yoga C630?
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Statutory Ape posted:how much are you seeing that lenovo for and what do you want besides more than 32g storage? Well, the c630 exists as a FHD model and with 64GB, that might qualify as "cheap"..? (hence the quotation marks) Didn't know about this site, thanks! I see it might actually exist now in 2019 (don't like the HP chromebooks though...) I use the SD card solution on one Toshiba Chromebook I've got, but.. it's just, 32 GB is just a tad small for regular Linuxing, 64 or greater would be neat, and it's a bit turn off not being able to use the SD card slot for anything else than /home at the same time..
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May 21, 2019 21:10
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hmm i don't like gallium os that much. i guess it just got hidpi support since xfce just got it, but basing a chromeos replacer os that didn't have hidpi support until very recently shows that they do a lot of questionable technical choices i'd just test if fedora worked on it
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autism ZX spectrum posted:
fedora is made mostly by redhat. redhat is responsible for making linux work on modern laptops, so they're the standard for how other distros are measured. thunderbolt, firmware updates, usb-c, flicker free boot graphics, hidpi etc etc, redhat employs the people who's making this stuff work. so if fedora works on the chromebook, you'd get the best linux experience.
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it's more like _if_ it runs it runs the best. but google is pretty good about keeping stuff upstream, so your chances getting it running shouldn't be that low. just try and see
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haven't seen a chromebook yet that didnt have soldered on emmc
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Opera Bitch posted:I am headed back to teach after being out this year on maternity leave and was told that the laptop they had set aside for me that can connect easily to our smartboard is MIA. The school gave me a Samsung Chromebook but I am not having luck finding the right dongle/adapter that connects into the Smartboard's VGA cable and plugs into the chromebook (and no one at our school knows any. It doesn't have an HDMI outlet: just the two in the pics below. guess you could use one of those usb 3 dockings with displaylink hdmi outlets
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