No.6099
I remember using crouton on refurbished ARM chromebook. It was not the best possible linux experience but battery life and portability made it pretty interesting daily driver.
Not sure if you zoomers are allowed to do such thing on school property tho
No.6100
>>6099I think they made all chrome books Linux compatible out of the box so you can just do a full Linux install which would be nice considering the battery life of those things.
No.6103
>>6100I could compile kernel from google's tree and use debian's ARM userland but I could not figure out how to enable modesetting with mali. I know some archfags managed to do it but I could not replicate it.
wonder how atom based chromebooks work
No.6133
>spyware
Just format them NIGGA
No.6140
>>6100They made them Linux compatible because ChromeOS is based on Gentoo.
No.6150
>>6126what smartphone do you use?
No.10772
>>6096idk, i kinda like it
been using an acer spin 713 10th gen intel 8gb ram ssd variant because there was a flash deal and i got it for super cheap
basically just wanted something to to lay down in bed with and shitpoast so I said, why not
thing is fast and smooth
I just use it to surf the web and occasionally jot down notes and record audio thoughts
Bluetooth on ChromeOS was a shitshow, that is until the most recent update, and especially since I moved to the beta update channel… idk time will tell
it's cool you get to use android apps on them
I know it's BORG tier, but its kinda reassuring to be in the midst of the GOOGpanopticon – there's always someone listening, there's always someone there. It's nice to know everything I'm doing is being recorded and that they care
besides you can create a google account with a puppet throw away account, you dont even need a mobile number, so all things considered this isn't a deal breaker
No.10773
>>6126i cant think of a non evil fucking company when it comes to the regular OEMs that come to mind
all the linux-marketed hardware companies like system76, purism, linuxmint make shit that's too expensive
maybe it's worth it to save up, but i'm apprehensive
No.11572
>>6096Just put Linux on it. Actually loved my 2-in-1 convertible Chromebook after that, with gnome on it and a nice screen, the ultimate consoom machine.
No.11621
>>10772>its kinda reassuring to be in the midst of the GOOGpanopticon – there's always someone listening, there's always someone there. It's nice to know everything I'm doing is being recorded and that they caremeds
No.11624
You can install leenukes on chromebooks now.
No.11626
it pisses me off how many otherwise perfectly appealing X86 netbook type devices at a reasonable price point are only available with chromeOS, with no way to 100% strip it out and use it as a regular machine like you can or at least could before UEFI let some OEMs be cunts with Windows devices.
No.12437
ChromeOS is based, final (and ultimate) manifestation of Gentoo
if you're really gonna be a punk about it, then just slap CloudReady on it instead of CrOS, and experience the degoogled chromium bliss
No.12450
>>6100It's really not that simple. Tried it, proper fucked. Bios/bootloader is absolutely fucked beyond salvaging.
No.12613
I like them. I don't see the big deal.
They're usually cheap, you can log into them with a burner Google account (you don't even need to make a gmail account or provide a phone number).
All I do is type up documents, surf the web, shit post, and light photo-editing in GIMP.
I also regularly talk to Google Assistant and try to brainwash it.
No.12624
>>12450On some Chromebooks its relatively easy (though there is some amount of hoops to go through) to install linux, but it depends on the hardware.
If you want a cheap (200$) Linux laptop with good battery-life (7-10h) in a sturdy metal body, you can always get a pine-book pro. It runs on an arm chip so it's for basic computing needs.
No.12628
these things suck so much shit that when i worked at a help desk and people called in about them we would be so close to telling them to just buy an actual puter
No.12633
This person uses a school chromebook, meaning the sysadmin likely disabled devmode and thus making it impossible to install leenoks. The school lets themselves be dominated by G**gle in exchange for being able to dominate their own students.
No.12635
i tried jailbreaking my school chromebook, it didn't work since the guides were shit
ARM laptops in general seem promising, check out
https://www.pine64.org/ No.12643
>>12628What kind of issues were you helping fix?
If you buy one with half-assed okay specs then for surfing the web they're pretty damn smooth and straight-forward
>Optimal Chromebook experiencean actual ssd rather than an emmc for the boot drive
a core-i processor from the last few years
8gb of ram
Three-finger horizontal swipe to move between tabs is an awesome feature and now I can't surf the web any other way.
linux developer mode allows me to use gimp and libreoffice and it works without issue… but I just use docs for most stuff now.
more and more chromebook-specific apps are being made for the appstore
Because the younger generation of kids are being trained on chromebooks, and more & more high schools and colleges are doing assignments on stuff like google workspaces, and more & more OEMs are making evermore premium chromeOS devices, I think we'll see it hitting 20% or more of the OS market share in places like the US. It's already 12% in Sweden.
unless you're a 9000IQ super hacker-supreme, then nothing you do is really anonymous, with all the backdoors in modern CPUs, even your keystrokes can be logged and accessed, just embrace the GOOGLE botnet BORG No.12668
>>12643cringe a corporate shill, telling people to use spyware on purpose, and there are no "backdoors" just security holes. Even if the lock on the door in the back of your house is bad, that doesn't mean you should not lock the front door.
No.12670
>>12668internet is inherently spyware, always has been, always will be
>there are no backdoors pppfffffttttt….. okay, who's the shill now, perra de culo
you have very trusting sensibilities
>i-it's better that Windows dominates rather than having the BigOS market as bifurcated as possible the growth of CrOS = less windows users
this is good, this is better than just Winblows having abject dominance
would it be cool that boomers and my midget brained friends started using gentoo or even linux mint for shit-sake… sure, it would be, but it would also be cool if that shit worked seamlessly out of the box and it didn't confuse retards
it's a pick your poison kind of option
too many are priced out of expensive MacOS so it's windows, google, or pulling your hair out with lynucks
No.12671
>>12670Google has been a bigger problem than Microsoft for many years now.
FUCK OFF SHILL No.17380
what hapened to that fuchasia OS they were developing a while ago lol
>>17370become ungovernable
No.17381
>>12613>I also regularly talk to Google Assistant and try to brainwash itwhat do you do to brainwash it?
No.17390
>>17380It's used in some of their "home assistant" surveillance devices.
No.17393
I'm going to use this thread to complain about android
It is so fucking bad, I took a look too at android 12 and it just gets worse and worse, the only thing that doesn't suck about android is that it isn't ios. I think l’m just going to go smartphoneless and use a pinebook instead or something idk but i can't stand this junk anymore
No.17394
>>17393Why though, just don't use your phone for other than communication. Don't waste money.
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