Hey everyone. Has anyone here ever tried installing ChromeOS on their device? I’m traditionally a Windows man myself, and I find it the best option for my purposes, but recently I came to wonder what ChromeOS Flex would be like on this tiny fella. As a weird hybrid of Android and Linux it looks a very promising OS for everyday use on low-end devices. Its Android origin makes me think it must be a better option for touch-screen devices, and especially those with small screen (don’t know for sure, though, just a wild guess), while the Linux functionality will cover for all the other needs of the regular user (mine are nothing much more than an office suite and a couple of dictionaries and linguistic tools and utilities). I’m not much of a Linux user myself, and my only experience of working with it is installing PopOS on my wife’s ancient battered laptop, which indeed made it work faster, but it’s still of not much use except playing YouTube or some shows while doing something in the kitchen. No matter the software, if the hardware is old and tired, nothing will save it.
I read somewhere that people managed to install Ubuntu and Mint on the devices, but what interests me most is the notorious driver issue. Seems the manufacturer only provides drivers for Windows.
Has anybody tried it? It so, could you please share your experience? Many thanks in advance.
I'll be honest, I haven't even considered ChromeOS. There are a lot of possible Linux distros. I didn't even think of Android.
I'm also curious if there will be others who have thought about it, or even tried it. 🤔