I Should NEVER Have Listened To Your TERRIBLE Linux Idea...
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
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I listened to you and tried to install Linux on an ARM based chromebook, and the result was suffering.
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-Lenovo Article about the various stages of linux on a chromebook: www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/ope...
-Computer world article about how to get started with Linux in ChromeOS: www.computerworld.com/article...
-and then their article about different apps to try: www.computerworld.com/article...
-FlatHub, the site with a bunch of Linux apps and how to install them: flathub.org/home
-The linux install guide for the Asus C100PA Arm based chromebook: gist.github.com/kapilhp/01c3e...
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Just wanted to quickly clarify the whole ctrl + D vs ctrl + U thing. I did initially use ctrl+u to set up booting off a USB. Once I did that, it didn’t want to boot off the USB because I didn’t correctly set up the boot media. Which is really hard to make for specific ARM based Chromebooks, like I explained at the end of the video. It was only then that one of the guides to me to use ctrl + D, which confused me and all the shouting started. 😅 Oh, also remember bots are bad, mkay.
Lol u should instal linux to usb media drive and connect it to chrome book
@@aleksi2858 That’s what I tried doing, but because it uses a ARM chip, you need to do a whole bunch of extra stuff to prepare the linux install so that the ARM chip recognizes it.
Erhm - There are a bunch of versions of Linux m8 - get one which have "general" support ARM processors. Also - sometimes you can install an older version of Linux and update it if the newer version wont install. It's a bit of a weird device you got your hands on there - so it might take a bit of working around it... It really shouldn't be that hard though when you have another device to download and make bootable USBs on.
@@Craider79 guys leave dawid, its a miracle he got this far
Your getting spammed here mate.. @DawidDoesTechStuff
Setup: says press CTRL - U to boot usb
DAWID: press CTRL - D - nothing happens
insert enraged DAWID face
Dawid moment
Like pressing the power button when it asks you to press any button
I did use Ctrl U initially to set up usb boot. After that it wouldn’t boot off the usb because I didn’t have the correct boot media on the usb drive. Only after that process did I get frustrated and got stuck on ctrl D because of a different guide. 😅
@@DawidDoesTechStuff you should have tried Ctrl+"press every key on the Kb", that would be my rage solution for sure
“There’s some line-ex happening. cool.” 😂
Dawid tries to install Linux on random crap should be a recurring series
'linux on a pregnancy test' make it happen!
(and maybe a doom demo) 😆
Dawid tries to install Linux on 1980 Texas Instruments scientific calculator.
Please no. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff please yes
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss!!!!!!!
Most of my linux experience is staring at a webpage trying to understand why what I did was wrong.
And getting badgered to rtfm which is terribly voluminous.
I don't understand that these days (a year ago) that are unable to install Linux on a computer. 😐
They REALLY should stick with Windows preinstalled...
Was bitching at the time about a chromebook that refused to output audio from the speakers ever again if headphones were plugged in once. This happened across literally a dozen distros.
But thanks for the insult, it's fairly representative of the linux nerd community @@ibizenco
As someone who understands the linux file system on a deep level, watching you using a command line was like watching a confused puppy looking at TV for the first time.
😂😂🙂
I've walked someone who wasn't particularly tech savvy through installing linux on a chromebook, it required disassembly to remove a physical BIOS write protection circuit, and also a coreboot flash. I think I cried when I saw the Linux Mint login screen.
Good choice of distros, bad choice in laptops. haha
@@peeonthe3rdrail414 I had problems with Linux with a desktop...back in the late 1990s. I'm sure it's easier now but I swore off Linux.
that doesn't apply on an ARM chromebook no?
wthell?! lol
That sounds like a good challenge.
You have become hands down my favorite tech tuber over the past few months! Absolutely love your sense of humor and sarcastic adds.
there nothing like a good cup of linux based lenode 👍👍
I installed Gallium OS on a Chromebook once. Every step of the process, I thought I completely broke everything. It ended up being successful, but boy was it a challenge
Was that worth it?
@@adityadivine2138 It was worth it. I got more performance out of it, but in my case it was kind of the only option for what I was trying to do. My device was also really well supported by Mr. Chromebox and Gallium OS. In Dawid's case, I'd probably give up too
@@iainmurphy9101 was yours arm based? I never quite understood why people buy chromebooks. I'll either buy an iPad or a cheap laptop with dos os and install Linux on it.
@@adityadivine2138 Mine was Intel based. As for why buy one in the first place, price is probably the main reason. In my case, the price was free
@@iainmurphy9101 oh now that makes sense
Been watching your content for a while now, and the script writing and jokes and improved massively along with your general on-screen presence and camera confidence. Love to see it!
Dawid can't do linux as easily as dell makes it sound so dell sucks with their instructions because it should make it super easy with all the instructions so easily that it should just work
Dawid is the worst nightmare of any IT support specialist 😄
thought it was pronounced ‘linn-ux’ instead of ‘line-ux’. line-ux sounds like a walmart AI version of Linus Sebastian
Dawid makes that very joke less than two minutes into this video...
It is probably the way most people in RSA pronounce it, so he probably grew up saying it that way.
@@cup_and_cone RSA? I searched for it but came up with nothing?
@@miserj maybe what he meant was Republic of South Africa, Dawid was originally from that region. Born in Namibia, entered college in South Africa.
@@Panzergruppe22 which is weird, because he doesn’t have a South African accent (the usual Afrikaans, anyway). I’ve never heard an accent like his before, and I’ve heard a lot.
What do you mean? This is peak content. You should listen to us more! :p
Sure your mental well being may not like it, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make to see your channel thrive.
That’s what happened to Etika :(
you give up mental wellbeing when you become youtuber :P
LOL!!!! "...that's a sacrifice WE're willing to make..." , ROTFLMAO!
Yes please more linux on random crap. Than do Solaris or BSD on random crap. THIS would be great and we will all learn ;-)
I would not suggest a Chromebook as your first attempt at installing Linux, lol... last time I did it, I actually had to open the system up & remove a screw from the motherboard to enable developer mode (curse you, Asus, but at the time it was far and away the most powerful Chromebook available, a Haswell i3 with 4GB of RAM). Chromebooks are notoriously locked down.... if you do fancy another attempt to install it, try it in a virtual machine first. Walk before you can run and all that jazz.
screw is much better than asking company for unlock code, or trying to use some weird hacks
Oh I forgot all about removing the "security screw" in the Asus Chromebox I installed Gallium on...
How do i make a chromebook virtual machine? To simulate the locked up nature of a chromebook?
@CJ White the OP said “if you do fancy another attempt to install it, try it in a virtual machine first”, I was asking how can I simulate the hardware of a chromebook in a VM?
@@STORMFIRE07 You don't. That's not the sticking point here - it's a complication but the real problem appears to be Dawid's base level of knowledge with Linux. If he isn't comfortable with the install process & using it in an easier situation then he shouldn't even attempt to install it in a locked down situation like a Chromebook. I also said "walk before you can run" - IE, learn enough about Linux that you aren't typing things like "sudoapt" in terminal because you "heard linux has something to do with 'sudo apt'", and once you've got that baseline knowledge you can give it a go on a Chromebook - by which point the tutorials he was following will probably make a lot more sense.
I installed Linux on my mom's Chromebook (x86-based tho) and it's working well. She only uses Chrome, but unlike with Chrome OS, she still gets security updates and new browser versions on this old hardware this way.
the fact linux is a better option for running chrome than chromeos haha
@@aquaponieee truth ^^... I've got working 100% h264 and vp8 decoding under Linux over Chrome OS. Despite of battery efficiency, both of them are par since Chrome OS can still drain quickly due to lacking GPU accelereration in my chromebook(s) as well as the unofficial onces like brunch.
what distro did you install ?
@@lhommedelapampa9730 Ubuntu Desktop LTS.
I used a dual boot Linux/Chromebook Acer C710 in 2013. That was actually a pretty decent system... The slow Celeron 847 even let me play some basic games like Hotline Miami.
Honestly, for 199 USD it was a hell of a system!
and this is why I love watching Dawid videos. the pain and emotions he feels are almost exactly the same as my feelings when doing these things.
thank you Dawid for summarizing every Linux installation I have done over the last 22 years.
That’s the best Linode sponsor message I’ve seen. Thanks for making these more fun than they should be.
Loved the effects you did on this one David! Felt real epic! :D
it's your fault all of it is your fault so Dawid's gonna make you watch an ad now🤣🤣🤣
I dunno if this is relevant to this chromebook but most of these have a write protect screw on the motherboard that you need to take out before flashing a new OS to the emmc (btw I'd love ot see pt.2)
7:14 Not sure if you noticed this, but it specifies that its key combination is Ctrl + U and not Ctrl + D like most articles say. Would love to see a Part 2 to this however if you can get it working!
I did initially use ctrl+u to set up booting off a USB, and then the one guide confused me. 😅 But the reason it didn’t work was because didn’t have correctly set up boot media. Which is really hard to make, like I was explaining at the end.
Yes now do it and try again
@@DawidDoesTechStuff For a simple program which sets up the bootable USB by itself, try Balena Etcher 😀
@@hahalolha gave up hope getting Ubuntu on my old iMac 2007 but this saved the day
@@hahalolha yeah, how complex can it be?
This is the closest I've seen Dawid ready to teach aerodynamics and the principles of flying to a Chrome Book.
It says, after you enable USB boot, that you need to press Ctrl U, not Ctrl D. I had to go back in the video to confirm that it was correct and sure enough it's Ctrl U.
Give it another go Dawid 😃
Dawid says it's all your fault it's entirely your fault cause you had to make him try linux on an arm based laptop instead of x86 which would have been easier for him to start out on🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 lmao
He said that he initially tried Ctrl U but it didn't work, so then he followed the guide that said to use Ctrl D and it didn't work either.
@@raven4k998 it was his fault for buying an arm based chromebook 🤣🤣
skill issue
That's some linuxing going on there...
This was brilliant and horrifying at the same time! Outstanding video!
it's the "this has been linuxing for ages" for me, if you spend a few days on Linux it's not that bad tbh especially when you setting up a home server, eventually you get use to the commands and it makes you feel powerful lmaoo
Windows has a thing called "DOS" which I already learned before you were born, and it makes me feel more powerful than Linux because I can play games.
6:13 "proper neckbeard linux" lol 🤣🤣🤣
This is so hillarious. I love the begging the chromebook to work as its supposed to. Definitely been there and done that with the myriads of software and os's I run into in my day to day life. Welcome to the real world of tech support.
It's absolutely doable, but for some models you do absolutely need Linux knowledge beforehand, and even then when things go wrong it can be a complete mess trying to figure it all out. You gave it a fair shot IMO!
We used to have this rule in construction, called the 10% rule. You have to be 10% smarter than the device you're working with to make it work for you.
your rage soothes my soul, your tears kindle the warmth of my heart. seriously though, congrats for trying at least.
6:45 how did you get here? i'm trying to install another os on my chromebook but idk how i get to this part
Awesome job. Looking forward to your future series of "Dawid Does Linux Stuff" 😘
At some point I really want to try Linux again, but honestly I still have way too much PTSD from the last time I failed at it. The funny thing is Linux most of the time is quick and easy boom it just works. But if you draw the bad card, or it decides it doesn't like something about your system, then it's the worst of kind of STD.
I feel you bro, linux like systems which are nither too new nor too old and are based mainstream platforms.
My girlfriend has been enjoying Pop_Os and now is trying other distros like Garuda.
The absolutely easiest Linux version is Linux Mint Cinnamon. If my neighbor can use it, and he is definitely not computer literate, anybody should be able to use it. Of course he just uses it to surf the web and do emails. It won't run most Windows programs and so you have to learn Linux versions and in the past I have had problems getting it to recognize my network printers (sometimes the Linux version sees them and loads drivers and sometimes it sees them and decides it can't find drivers for them). I have one computer for Linux and another for Windows but could probably go all Linux if I wanted to.
I say the same about Windows 10. When it works it works, the moment you encouter the slightest issue it goes the seppuku way.
@@Hackerisitic no. i am a linux (chad) user so this is a little biased but whatever. linux isnt trying to be windows, yes its different, the command line is scary for new users. but thats the whole point, linux isnt meant to be windows. whenever i use windows i am astonished how weird some things are .e.g control panel and settings are both needed (why). as Pi Man said, distros like linux mint cinnamon are designed to feel simmalar to windows, but they arent trying to be the same.
Getting Linux to install on a Chromebook is incredibly tedious if one is not well versed in Linux Commands , i might take it for a spin one day 😅👌 for now i've done the easy part of just dual booting Linux alongside Windows on one drive.
The fact that I look forward to the Lenode ad every video
Small info, you could also try to compile and install box86 and box64 and run Steam, but it won't be easy anyway as it's emulation. ARM CPU makes things complicated, but I get it working on mainline Linux on my Poco F1.
The problem with ChromeOS is the propritary BIOS. The vast majority of standard PCs will boot into Linux fine.
yeah chrome os being technically a fork of gentoo linux does not make it any any easier to install it on chromebook lol
Have you ever tried to set the Date & Time on a Chinese digital wristwatch you bought on Amazon for $12?
Did you remove a security screw that prevent bootloader changes on the nvme?
0:47 That has got to be the best ad segue I've ever seen. I'm still chuckling
I love watching newbies figure out the command lines, it's so precious. Thanks for this.
Dawid, the suggestion was a troll, arm hardware and linux is a not very well supported unless you are looking for a very specific use case, as a desktop it would be pretty limited
although there is no sponsor to back this idea i recommend you try Zorin OS, it's is like a fusion of windows and macos, absolutely stunning linux operating system that is likely to end ones windows enslavement, steam windows games work extremely well with steams inbuild proton feature which runs windows games... these days tho linux versions on games are pretty common
This is the type of content I expect from Dawid and this channel 😂
i love ur content :) thank you for making my day everytime u upload!!
I wonder if you could have installed VirtualBox from within the terminal in ChromeOS and then a proper Linux distro?
As far i know virtual box don't support arm...
arm is pain
@@vipvip-tf9rw me when someone shoots me in the arm
I remember installing Ubuntu, Windows 10, and back to ChromeOS on my Chromebook just because I can. Did not even atteempt gaming as the Windows ran at a cinematic 24FPS. Also, on ChromeOS Linux Beta I managed to run Minecraft Java Edition lowest settings with Sodium mod and run at 20-30FPS on my Celeron Acer Spin R11, and 30-35 playable FPS on my cousins cheaper Asus something Chromebook. PS that suffering only occured because of ARM, if it was an x86 Chromebook, you'd be able to do ChromeOS Linux, proper Linux, and Windows all within like an hour not including install time.
Oh man your ads are genuinely hilarious, literally the only ads I've ever enjoyed watching and that's saying something.
Gotta love that developer mode boot warning and beeping.
It's not like your being punished or anything, right?
I am just astonished that a device made to run a literal linux-ish environment makes it so hard to install a "real" linux OS on it. Had no idea it was this difficult!
On my pc, it's a matter of "make bootable flash drive", "boot off flash drive", "click the install button", and that's more or less it.
This looks like it's worse than one of those masochistic Gentoo or LFS installs.
I daresay that a random Raspberry PI board or similar arm-based SOC would have an easier time. Bad Chromebook!
They don't really want you installing weird things on the google chromebook. I have no idea what it could be about but it seems like they just want to keep you in google chrome os. Someone somewhere at google probably knows but they haven't told anyone, so I think it is going to remain a mystery why these things have happened.
Your Linode adds are legendary and a staple of the channel
Lmfao, This is by far! One of my favorite Dawid Videos!! Also close to the one where your wife shocked you randomly xD. But keep up the great work! ❤❤
You can’t punish us with a linode ad. Everytime your deep voice bellows out LINODE I smile
For whatever it's worth, I think the particular random crap you picked for your first adventure with Linux might have been leaping past the tutorial and the standard difficulty settings right into hard mode+.
My experience with Linux Mint on old business-class hardware that doesn't run newer Windows very well has been "Boot to USB, follow the GUI, wait for a bit, reboot, click the boxes to add proprietary drivers, reboot, done". Biggest issue is bad wifi driver support and having to swap out whatever is in the system for something with an Intel chipset. Next issue would be hybrid graphics in laptops, but performance and battery life have both been "good enough" on my most recent machine to do documents/email/watch videos/Discord without digging into it.
The draw for Linux is that it turns E-Waste into useful computers after their time being able to be upgraded is done. That ARM is harder to do just reflects how few of them there are in the computing market. I run one, and its fine, but its just that, fine.
Yeah it's great stuff, if you got time to learn it. It's got it's good points
Linux on ARM is definitely a thing though, that's what Raspberry Pis use. Android is basically a very customized version of ARM Linux.
just not for chromebooks
thing is your computer is not a rasberry pi lol
Looked to me everything was working fine, only your attempt to get Steam going didn’t work. But then again, what use would that be? Non of that stuff (games) is compiled for ARM, or it must be something obscure or done through emulation.
i have a AMD A6 dont know what nr it is, but my linux app store is all blank...most of the code´s not work ether, "command is not found" i dont know if my lenovo is an ARM chrom, but after seeing this video...i wonder it cout look like it.
ChromeOS is Linux (Gentoo), but its proprietary. but this man could have said "install the Debian Virtual Machine on it", and there was his video. but this dude went all the way to try to install an actual open source distro on ARM device (which I think OpenSuse has a file for). Props to him also because (this was funny) every linux user has been there at once as a beginner.
Holy shit i feel your pain. Some months ago i did the same operation with a programming buddy of mine to my ARM chromebook. After bricking it and resoldering new memory four times the final product is a LXDE running ARM chromebook with a healthy part of the Kali nethunter software running.
Except for the 3 startup errors i recieve and the loud warning every time i startup the chromebook (as well as having to manually switch keyboard layout every time in the console) it runs "perfectly".
Forgot to mention, but a tip to anyone trying this:
- Just because your ARM processor has never been run on a certain OS doesn't mean it's impossible. But going that way will lead to you having to create/manipulate a Kernel to work. That's the path me and my friend took but it lead to us decreasing our life expectancy significantly.
- The solution often requires taking steps from multiple "guides", for example you might get started with one guide, then switch to another part-ways through because it stopped working. Keep doing this until you are fully bald and your neighbors hate you.
(Extra; Switch which OS you are trying to install, sometimes a Ubuntu guide works on Mint instead etc, keep experimenting.)
- Running Linux as a virtual machine within chromium is a bit easier, you can get the aforementioned LXDE running with fever steps. Then all you do is "CTRL+R", type "Chrosh" and type "StartLXDE" to enter the VM. Practical for people that want to try Linux and use it but still want to keep the functionality of Chrome OS.
- Don't be attached to the Chromebook. In the best case scenario (of a bricked system), you will still be able to use it for normal use, but stuff like saving files or playing mobile games will probably be broken. Worst case you have to butcher another Chromebook to solder new memory on the PCB, I've been there and can't say it's much fun.
Good luck
@@llamacannon1714 or just buy used x86 laptop
@@vipvip-tf9rw Yeah it's the smartest alternative. Even better would be going for those school chomebooks at the end of school-semesters and buying them in bulk for almost nothing.
Wait why would you have to resolder new memory? AFAIK at worst you would have to hook up an external programmer to reflash corrupted firmware
Proud of you trying, even with what most of us expected to be the end result.
I do these crazy things very frequently. Usually some hardware manufacturer give us a new board and its base system. I usually have a bootable kernel or media, let's call it bootstrap system(The host system, in your video, which became host of the 'virus,' which is not really true. It's called target system.)
Then the host system give you environment and toolchain(mostly compiler and linker) to build the working new kernel, which you can refer to current booting kernel, and its boot loader. When things are done properly enough, you can boot it with new booloader and new kernel. That's not something rocket science.
It's just very outlandish for most of the users who grow up in the windows/mac culture background.
It's not like this in this instance as there is no boot media available for it so you have to create your own. It would be amazing to just have a disk with a working toolchain! That sounds incredible but even a disk with a kernel and ininrd is not something you can have and the partitions on the disk have to be just so for a chromebook to recognise it as a bootable disk and the bootloader you have on the arm chromebook is not one that is easily replaced even if you had another bootloader. It kind of *is* rocket science or by now someone would have created a bootable disk image that you can just dd.
Dawid, thank you for doing exactly what I would have done. So I didn't do it myself. :)
He fumbles it so you don't have to!
Wow, i don't remember seeing Dawid this frustrated before. Great job linux commentators
theres is a windows 11 for arm processors, would be cool to see a video of that trying to run that OS
Gallium is a download and use linux distro for many chromebooks....I dual boot, but now since my chromebook isn't going to get any updates I need to disable the write protect screw and go full linux. Haven't gotten around to it yet though.
I mean, Linux on a regular CPUs is pretty pretty good for a low end stuff
I converted an old i7 ASUS Chromebox I got for free because Google didn't support it anymore to Windows and it works perfectly, I use it as a 4K media player for my TV.
Another cool tip, You should replace all the caps. Get a capacitor kit, it fixes everything.
Linode should just run that bump on loop for every ad they do. 11/10.
"lie-nucks" hahaha what
Use the trojan 3060 with Linux 😆
Dawid please do this and film it. I wanna see your reactions when trying to get those drivers working.
Can you review a Ek Fluid Gaming PC
I put arch on that chromebook a few months ago! I am typing this using it. I think I messed something up because there is no sound.
This is a fantastic video. It mirrors every encounter I have ever had with Linux. Thank you Dawid for your service.
Lol. This reminds me of the first time I tried to install Linux on my old laptop without researching anything. I just went by a friend's recommendation, assuring me it would be easy. Predictably, I lost one friend that day.
tbf it's far easier than on a chromebook
Love how you keep emphising ARM processor ;) I use linux on an ARM processor for work.. I wouldn't want to load it on to a Chromebook either lol
This is the best tech channel on UA-cam lol. I hope you hit 500k subs soon.
Libre Office also exists for windows and I keep recommending it to people who, and I can't imagine why, want to pay microsoft $70 a year for a word processor or spreadsheets. On the face of it it just seems to be fully competent office software.
Also if you in the comments want a cheap linux computer please don't put yourself through this, there are perfectly cromulent 10 year old professional laptops out there just waiting for a second chance. If you want a lil baby one maybe try a 12" thinkpad like the x240.
"My boas says I should use MS program. Anything else is illegal." -Office drone.
I have the office suite free of charge because the company I work for gives it to me. And I still use libreoffice because it is easy to use and I love open source software. It can be tricky for older users, but it is so similar that you learn it quick.
LibreOffice is the shit. Especially when Microsoft wants to make the entire Office suite into a yearly subscription based model.
@j0sh I hope "more modern interface" doesn't mean that fucking ribbon. D=
@j0sh libreoffice has a modern interface and you can change it to look like microsoft office without plugins
"Someone who sees Linux as a disease you may catch if you hang around boring people too much," might possibly be the single best sentence ever uttered in the English language.
Initial method, I found that Linux runs as an application layer. So to get things running, I had to cross-over to the application layer using the command line. That works for me, but I couldn't create scripts so Mom could run her Wine games. Maybe there's a way to do that now. I gave up.
ok there is a write-protection screw physically installed in the device. Unscrew it and once removed it should let you install alt OS.
Does this chromebook have one of those mechanical locks with a screw to stop you from installing Line-ux? You can try installing the Mr Chromebox BIOS... that makes it easier
@@elly3713 that's a pretty angry reply this early in the morning
Bios in this context is more of an x86 thing. This is an arm chromebook. Legacy boot mode is an unsupported method for booting Linux distros available only on Intel/x86-based ChromeOS devices (sorry ARM owners).
I am a total Team MS-Windows, I find Linux extremely awful but i am pretty sure the reason Linux did not work for Dawid was because he is mispronouncing LINUX so badly.. I may not like it but it at least it deserves to be called respectfully in the way it was named, I cringed very time he said LINUX and he said it a lot... 🤣🤣
I don't know if arm based chromebooks would be supported, as that seems like a whole other rabbithole, but on an intel celeron based chromebook I simply put it in dev mode, unscrewed the back, unplugged the battery to disable a "protection chip" (older models have a "protectionscrew" you can remove), and on the ac power then used the mrchromebox script to automatically have it make a backup, unlock the filesystem and flash seabios onto it, then reboot, and install linux choosing to wipe the whole drive, shutdown the laptop, plug the battery back in, and easypeasy, it was easy af, especially compared to whatever method you were doing, you were using crostini as a basis, but crostini is basically a linuxcontainer that google has completely neutered to the point of it being barely functional.
My advice? If the arm based system is in the supported devices list on the mrchromebox website, then just wipe that venereal system called chromeos off of there completely
Mrchromebook script is only for Intel based Chromebook and not for arm
So now that Windows has been updated to better support Arm-based CPUs will you do another video like this?
Dawid, your experience with Linux is pretty much everyone’s experience with Linux the first couple…. hundred times you use it. After that you finally start to remember the commands and all of your previous mistakes and it becomes much easier.
There's plenty of distros available that would require absolutely nothing complicated to get running. It really isn't all "sudo apt" command line instructions. Pretty much everything has a GUI in the most mainstream distros. Yeah, sure, in the past you couldn't avoid the terminal/command line but that really isn't the case anymore. It is beyond stupid how complicated some people make Linux look. This obviously isn't so much the case here as quite clearly the hardware in that chromebook is supported by next to nothing because it's so underwhelmingly useless, but still.
No. All my experiences with GNU/Linux instalation were pretty simple and straightforward.
Dawid, Can you tell me if a i3 10105f will bottleneck a 1650?
I know its not related to the video, I'm just curious 😅
not dawid, but no it wont
NO
Seems like a well balanced build to me. Bottlenecks will depend on game, etc
Would it bottleneck a 2060?
@@JustSumFella Pretty sure it would
My wife got a cheap Samsung Win10 Arm based laptop that likes to randomly freeze, especially when taking a test or things like that (grrrrr) - I have not tried any Linux on it yet but I’m very tempted - although I’ve had terrible experiences in the past with attempting to use Linux on “brand new” hardware that hadn’t been fully supported yet... we’ll see, a live USB should be possible for it - I don’t wanna mess with what’s on it, but it would be nice to see if it could at least be more reliable temporarily.
can you try to use a Dell Optiplex 7070 small factor SFF case with a gaming motherboard (not Dell) i would love to see what gpu can be placed and temp fps levels
this is pretty much my entire linux experience in nutshell - countless hours of research all over the place, only to find out I'm very unlucky... its singlehandedly why I'm never ready to completely migrate to linux
I installed Linux once and when I realized I had to be Neo from the Matrix to install a driver..... off it went. When I researched the issue online, I was met with "you're a useless pleb who can't code? No Linux for you"
So I took their advice and uninstalled.
That's the experience I've always had . Me - "Hello, I just installed Linux and how do I..." Linux Forum - "Go away and learn like we did noob!" Whenever I mention this, I get someone angrily go "No you didn't you stupid noob!" Kind of proving my point. The irony. It makes me chuckle anyway. I haven't bothered again for years.
Sir i have Lenovo 2.4GHz Pentium Dual Core B980 Processor, 2GB of DDR3 32bit is it possible to install Chrome os as Chrome os don't support my old labtop 😅
At this point Dawid is Linode's whole marketing team
REDO THIS VIDEO!!!
You tried, you raged, you failed, and then you blamed for audience. A truer UA-camr timeline couldn't be had!!
I have been dealing with a similar situation recently on a Lenovo AMD based Chromebook I bought after seeing the exact same Lenovo page on installing Linux. My fault for taking it at face value and not seeing your video on this one until now. :)
Well ARM...
But anyways any chances for any other random Linux installs? :P
Libreoffice is not only on Linux but also on Windows, which I use because it's easier to make charts there than in Excel.
And Linux can be complicated, but after several years of using it as the main operating system on several of my devices, I can say that it is worth the effort depending on what you do with it.
Although worse than installing linux is doing a Hackintosh on an AMD Ryzen with 100% functional Nvidia graphics. Now that's crazy, maybe an interesting project for the channel (I did it with MacOSX Sierra).
Usually Mr. Chromebox is your friend when installing linux on a chrome device.
Don't think he supports ARM though.
Can you install Android?
My brother once had an old chromebook. It was intel-based but he wanted to play a game on it. This was many years ago, but I found a guide to not only remove Chromium OS, but to completely remove the old boot-loader and get something called "SeaBIOS" or something like that. Wound up just installing Linux Mint on it and other than the touchpad being non-functional, it wasn't too shabby, and yes. it was able to run some games via WINE. It went pretty well. This video is another reason why I don't like the idea of ARM taking over one day. Can't easily swap the OS and BIOS.
Linux on ARM is frankly a nightmare outside of a few select devices. The people who wanted you to do this frankly had no idea what they're talking about. Yes, it's doable, but the only people I know who've done so were all professional linux developers!