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chromebooks

| have you ever used one? how was it? did you try running actual ubuntu on it?


| No.
Why even buy one.
Old thinkpads are cheaper and better.


| chromebooks are a waste of money. buy a used macbook or an old thinkpad


| Its light but not usefull for anything and for referrence i made it run arch


| I've got an Acer 14 with arch on. As long as you stick to light stuff, it makes a decent cheap laptop. Disk space is usually the biggest limiting factor for whatever you want to do, and most of them seem to have flash memory only. Mine tends to run out of RAM after about four hours if I run things that cache too hard. Chrome OS is good if you like Google and want a dedicated web browsing laptop but trying to edit anything other than text on it is a shitshow.


| If you install a GNU/Linux distro on a "Chromebook", it's no chromebook anymore. The term "Chromebook" doesn't refer to the hardware imho. Btw. "Macbooks" also are basically regular notebooks, but they have some proprietary hardware, interfaces and artificial restrictions in their BIOS/(U)EFI. On the other hand such things also exist on "regular" laptops.
My hint: buy a standard-compatible device, e.g.
https://puri.sm/
https://kde.slimbook.es
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com


| I needed a cheap computer for a trip and yoga 11e was about three times cheaper than a x230. It works okay, even the rdp client and is heavy enough to hurt someone. On top of that, it's shitty enough so I wouldn't be too sad if it were stolen

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