• Shortstack@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    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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        1 month 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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        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