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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I upgraded a Chromebook to Linux recently. That was a huge bump in performance that I wasn't expecting, not even just for gaming.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What OS was it running before? ChroomeOS is Linux right?

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[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 18 points 2 years ago

Technically yes, and so is Android. But neither work the way you'd expect a typical Linux distro to work.

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago*

Yeah it was ChromeOS. It is sort of linux, but google is an advertising company. You can't ask them to not collect your data and recently they gave up pretending like they cared about user privacy. Linux is none of that. Complete opposite.

If you compare it to linux side by side, chromeOS is basically the alternate reality evil twin with the goatee

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[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What distro? Did you follow a guide?

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

installed Lubuntu 24 on it using a guide that loosely applied to the low end chromebook I have. Link here

Using chrome browser on ChromeOS was snappy but any other browser I used with addons was an awful and laggy experience. The difference in performance was an unexpected win, but I primarily did it to ditch SpywareOS.

Going forward I'm probably going to just look for chromebooks to convert to linux for a daily driver laptop because you dont have to pay a premium for the spyware like you do with a windows laptop

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