/cbg/ - Chromebook General

Can I install debian on a chromebook yet?

I'd love a tiny arm laptop for writing code outside, but not if I have to use some hackjob chroot crap like crouton to install ubuntu

>>58889537
For the most part, yes you can.

I was able to boot various distros off a live usb drive after I put my machine into developer mode. You would have to do a little research to find out which machines could run debian the best, though.

>>58889505
>with most applications and documents living in the cloud.
"Somewhere completely out of your control".

All in all, under ChromeOS, it's a glorified internet booth. Don't expect to do any creative work on that.

>>58889505
good luck at trying to make this a regular general thread, op

>"can i upgrade the ram/ssd, or change the battery? any neat wacky stuff like egpu? coreboot? hackintosh?"
>"no"
>"oh"
>[some shitposting by the thinkpad and macbook dorks]
>[thread dies]

>>58889984
Yeah, it'll be really hard to make this a recurring thread. There was a decent chromebook thread last night and I wanted to have another one.

oh well