It’s arm right? Just fiddle a bit with the bootloader and that’s it. Similar to Andorided phones
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 months agoLooks like a Chromebook, which means Linux would be a bit hacky and not guaranteed to work well at all.
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It likely will work, but may not work 100%. It really depends on how popular this laptop is, and how well-supported it is in the linux community.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 7 months ago
Chromebooks are actually Linux.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Google/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Chrome plus Linux.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ah, the CNG distro. Chrome’s Not GNU.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Yeah not not standard Linux distributions. Getting standard Linux to work requires a bunch of messing with drivers
westyvw@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Wait, I bought a chrome book during that time frame and the first thing i did was wipe it and install Linux. That was the plan from the beginning. Works like any other laptop. Still does actually.
But I had no idea that it was hacky or difficult in anyway. There were issues?
clawdius@lemmy.today 7 months ago
it’s gotten a LOT less hacky now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
aeharding@lemmy.world 7 months ago
VeronicaExplains and not linking to the Peertube video? That’s a paddlin’
tilvids.com/w/hR4wubPUhEW3LR8ZckEAsn
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Nice! I gave up on Chromebooks after google screwed me over, but back then it was all very much an improvised hack to get Linux on them.
Glad to see that progress has been made!