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Linux on a Chromebook, my favorite way | Veronica Explains
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Yeah, if you just need something to browse the internet and edit documents, it's hard to do better than a Chromebook. A lot of them have insanely good battery life too since they are so light on compute power.
I got one during my last couple years of university for around $200 that was so light you could hold it level with just your thumb and two fingers, and the battery lasted so long that I would sometimes forget to charge it after a whole day and it would still be good for the next day. I toyed with installing Linux on it, but at the time the experience was pretty horrible, so I stuck with the vanilla OS.
Ubuntu Budgie ran really well. It is an HP 11 G5, 4 ram 16 disk. Most things are pretty snappy, but with that low of ram and no space for swap, it’s advisable to do only a few things at once.
(if you’re really lucky, some models have NVME drives instead of soldered in storage)