Suggest you read the following: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984834/chromebooks/installing-linux-on-a-chromebook-what-you-need-to-know.html http://www.androidauthority.com/crouton-turn-your-chromebook-into-far-more-than-a-glorified-web-browser-663044/ https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton So yes, with effort, it's possible but you will still be using a small KB & screen.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 14:07 25/08/2016 -0400, Kevin O'Brien wrote: > >> I have been thinking about getting a Chromebook, but the one thing >> holding me back is that I need to be able to run LibreOffice. Is that >> something I can do now? >> > > I'm no expert, but ... > > That depends on its operating system. If it is really a Chromebook, it > will be running the Google Chrome operating system - right? In that case, I > suspect the answer is "No", but Wikipedia tells me that "Enabling developer > mode allows the installation of Linux distributions on Chromebooks." If you > do this, then the answer will presumably become "Yes", since there is an > LibreOffice version for Linux - indeed, probably included in that > distribution. > > But some of those Chromebooks are now actually "Cloudbooks" and are sold > with Windows installed. In that case, the answer would be "Yes". > > And if so, how well does it run? >> > > Dunno. May depend on *which* Chromebook ... > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > ubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
