usertests PEnns said: And it still doesn't have decent video codecs to play a movie…. What, do they not pay for H.265 licensing? Most chips should have hardware decode. Whatever the case, it's an imperiled ecosystem that could be replaced by "Googlebook" (blegh) Reply
hotaru251 Google should have been sued to hell and back for their piss poor e-waste they sold to schools. Reply
usertests hotaru251 said: Google should have been sued to hell and back for their piss poor e-waste they sold to schools. I think you can convert many of them into Linux laptops. Other aspects like soldered RAM are simply industry trends. Reply
Moonstick2 usertests said: I think you can convert many of them into Linux laptops. I've one I picked up from eBay that I set up to chroot with antiX Linux, which basically means you boot into ChromeOS, run Linux from within it and then you can switch seamlessly back and forth with a keyboard combo. I almost exclusively used it within Linux and it was perfectly serviceable, the main advantage being it was compact and super-kind on the battery: I'd just close the lid to have it sleep, then if I needed it I picked it up opened it and could start doing what I needed instantly. Unless I was using it heavily it only needed charging every few days despite being used most of them. When ChromeOS stopped getting updated I eventually changed it to only have antiX and again it worked without fault. I eventually upgraded to a different laptop and rarely touch it now, but I got nearly a decade of decent use out of that £68 purchase. Reply
usertests Moonstick2 said: I've one I picked up from eBay that I set up to chroot with antiX Linux, which basically means you boot into ChromeOS, run Linux from within it and then you can switch seamlessly back and forth with a keyboard combo. There must be a memory impact from that. For 2-4 GB "e-waste" machines, you'll probably want to stick with one or the other. Reply
ezst036 Anything with the Google name brand on it carries a creep factor of 11. Its basically a living and breathing wiretap. Reply
circadia usertests said: What, do they not pay for H.265 licensing? Most chips should have hardware decode. Whatever the case, it's an imperiled ecosystem that could be replaced by "Googlebook" (blegh) eh…. might be unrelated, but MediaTek silicon + Google bullshittery means that it's rather unlikely to see any efforts similar to Asahi Linux for the "Googlebook" thing, and in fact, very few current ARM Chromebooks (even the ones with Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets) are able to boot straight into Linux distros without ChromeOS… ezst036 said: Anything with the Google name brand on it carries a creep factor of 11. Its basically a living and breathing wiretap. pfft. as if no other devices do wiretap these days. if you want to live a (mostly) normal life you cannot cut off everything at once and right away. Reply
Moonstick2 usertests said: There must be a memory impact from that. For 2-4 GB "e-waste" machines, you'll probably want to stick with one or the other. Depends on how you use it. For me ChromeOS was largely 'idle', nothing open in it. But I could cut across into it out of antiX, do some specific Google-related stuff, close that down and cut back and carry on. Even on 2GB it never felt laggy (this was basically light use, we're not talking opening 50 tabs or running games here) and I had the option of either OSs without even suffering the time-delay of a reboot and having to shut down the Linux stuff to switch. As I said, eventually I stripped out ChromeOS and installed antiX as the sole OS, but only because that Chromebook was no longer getting security updates so keeping ChromeOS was pointless. Reply
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