On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 9:47 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone know about putting Linux on Chromebooks? Or websites
> dedicated to the issue? Suggestions welcome!
>

Depending on what you want to do, you may not need to install another
distro.  Rather, you can simply "enable" Linux.
Open Settings, search for Linux, click Linux Development Environment, and
follow the instructions.In the end you get a Debian 11 system.

rwcitek@penguin:~$ uname -a
Linux penguin 5.4.157-17185-gbd27b903c738 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 1 19:28:03
PST 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

rwcitek@penguin:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release:        11
Codename:       bullseye

Once enabled, you can install VSCode, for example:

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/12/03/chromebook-get-started

FWIW, I installed Docker on a Chromebook:

https://gist.github.com/rwcitek/824d4752b417b6d2cd5c931af3db61a6

This just happened to be on a Chromebook that I checked out from a library.

That setup works for me.  But it depends on what you want to do with Linux.

Regards,
- Robert

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