I Should NEVER Have Listened To Your TERRIBLE Linux Idea...
I Should NEVER Have Listened To Your TERRIBLE Linux Idea...
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I listened to you and tried to install Linux on an ARM based chromebook, and the result was suffering.
Links
-Lenovo Article about the various stages of linux on a chromebook: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/ope…
-Computer world article about how to get started with Linux in ChromeOS: https://www.computerworld.com/article…
-and then their article about different apps to try: https://www.computerworld.com/article…
-FlatHub, the site with a bunch of Linux apps and how to install them: https://flathub.org/home
-The linux install guide for the Asus C100PA Arm based chromebook: https://gist.github.com/kapilhp/01c3e…
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Content
0 -> this is the sub hundred dollar Chromebook I did a
video on a while ago and in the comments section
5.46 -> of that video a bunch of you were telling me to
just install Linux on this arm-based Chromebook
11.94 -> and then all of my wildest dreams will come true
well I tried to install Linux on this arm-based
19.5 -> Chromebook and it didn't go very well the world
definitely does not seem like a better place on
25.32 -> this end of the video making process so brace
yourselves for a whole bunch of incompetent men
31.44 -> shouting at Chromebook action if I can't even get
past this step my brain clearly doesn't think good
37.74 -> enough for me to be able to do this process I know
it doesn't have Chrome OS on it that's the point
43.26 -> which is all your fault every little bit of it is
your fault and because of that I'm gonna make you
49.86 -> watch an ad now after a long hard day at work I
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58.38 -> of note there's just nothing quite like a good
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67.32 -> all your web hosting and computational needs top
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75.78 -> you've got a winner trial a node today and new
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98.82 -> foreign IX in theory is good for Chromebooks
because you can unlock more advanced feature
105.66 -> sets than Chrome OS offers which is about
as advanced as the 12 year old smart fridge
110.16 -> the problem is this Lenovo Chromebook has
an arm-based CPU in it which supposedly
115.38 -> complicates things quite a lot and that mixed
with my very successful history of Linux usage
121.5 -> means this is probably going to go about as well
as that time the CIA got involved in Cuba now
127.02 -> Jokes Aside I'm actually semi-confident
that running Linux on this Chromebook
131.22 -> may not be that hard to do a statement that's
definitely going to come back and bite me wow
137.52 -> AI but the reason that I think that is because
Lenovo has a whole page dedicated to linuxing
144.48 -> on their Chromebooks now on this page they give
two options of varying complexity when it comes
150 -> to linuxing on a Chromebook the first one is a
built-in beta feature which is supposedly very
155.4 -> easy to access and that's the first one we'll
try and then the second option is just fully
161.22 -> installing Linux on this little Chromebook Lenovo
even suggests specific distros that they think
168.12 -> would work well on a Chromebook Linux destroys
that just gently sip resources so they can work
173.58 -> well on a little bit of Chromebook now I really
appreciate that as somebody that sees Linux as a
178.92 -> disease you may catch if you hang around boring
people too long anyway with that let's try the
183.6 -> built-in beta feature and take it from there now
according to Lenovo activating the built-in Linux
191.58 -> environment on these Chromebooks is really easy
you just go to settings turn turn on username
201.54 -> 10 gig that is basically the entire storage
configuration of the little Chromebook OS update
207.96 -> required okay well I guess that's some Linux
over there which means I am immediately scared
217.92 -> and confused like what what do I do now sudo
apt that's I know that Linux involves sudo apt
229.86 -> I think okay let me Google it with
Google's help I soon found a computer
234.48 -> World article that told me in detail
how to do some Linux on Chrome OS hey
242.04 -> there's some Linux happening that's cool now it
took Linux quite a while to finish happening on
247.62 -> the Chromebook wow this has been linuxing for
ages but once it did Libra office was installed
253.32 -> which is like a freeware Linux alternative to
Microsoft Office wow this is really useful and
258.48 -> a great way to expand the base functionality of
a little Chromebook nice now you can also install
264.12 -> [ __ ] on here I was quite disappointed to find
out that it wasn't the exciting kind of [ __ ] but
269.16 -> a very practical [ __ ] that lets you do photo
editing and stuff probably not the most useful
275.22 -> photo editing device considering that the display
isn't very color accurate and the Chromebook is
280.44 -> painfully slow but it's nice to have photoshoppy
software available for free it's pretty cool now
285.78 -> this is all a little bit practical and boring for
my liking so let's try and do something that is
290.52 -> actually cool and sexy on it let's try and install
some Linux steam there were three ways in which
297.12 -> I attempted to install a not just useless Chrome
OS theme using this lineup developer environment
303.18 -> the first was to just blindly type sudo apt-get
install Steam which very surprisingly didn't work
311.16 -> my second method was to try and enable Borealis
through crotch I mean crash which may sound like
316.92 -> gibberish but Borealis is like a Google developed
project to get Steam games running natively on
323.58 -> Chromebooks but unfortunately that didn't work
either of course it's not been released on this
328.68 -> device that would have been way too convenient
apparently Borealis doesn't support arm-based
333.72 -> Chromebooks and not meaning to spoil anything but
that's going to become the dominant theme of the
338.64 -> rest of this video my third and final attempt was
to use flat Hub which is like a local watering
344.34 -> hole for Linux apps which even has a setup guide
specifically for Chrome os's Linux environment but
351 -> despite even using the crotch tab the setup failed
at which point I found a compatibility list which
356.88 -> did actually have a couple of arm chips listed
as compatible but quite predictably the chip
361.92 -> in my Lenovo just wasn't one of them okay well I
feel like I finally exhausted all my options in
368.1 -> terms of natively gaming on here using loser
Chrome OS Linux so now I'm going to try and
374.4 -> install some proper neckbeard Linux on here and
see if I can get real steam running using that
383.04 -> the research was grueling finding the best way
to install Linux on an arm-based Chromebook
390.12 -> was an arduous process and after what felt
like eons of preparation I was finally ready
399.48 -> ah ah why what is that localhost login I
don't know and because I have to type in root
409.5 -> now it's just in red it's red now and now I
don't know what to do because it's not how do I
416.46 -> go back to it having I don't know what I'm doing
okay I'm gonna try to turn it off again now I'm
423.06 -> back in this bit without the red so if I go root
return that happens and then if I type in enable
432.48 -> success wait what this didn't work last time
okay very nice now I need to figure out how to
441.12 -> make boot media despite being very confused by
the color red I finally got USB boot enabled on
448.02 -> the little Chromebook which was the last bit
of progress I made before I descended into a
453.36 -> pit of despair okay and then Ctrl D needs
to happen and then it doesn't do anything
459.66 -> it's worked before but it's not working now why
are you so obtuse every guide I look at it tells
468.54 -> me to do this but it doesn't turning it off for
the ninth time and I'm gonna hold it for longer
475.8 -> and then I'm gonna give it a minute so that it
Finds Its bearings or whatever and makes itself
481.98 -> comfortable gets a cup of tea okay arbitrary
amount of time passed d come on control D why
492.42 -> doesn't it work this time why if I can't even get
past this step my brain clearly doesn't think good
501.18 -> enough for me to be able to do this process I know
it doesn't have Chrome OS on it that's the point
509.04 -> now I've gone through lots of shouting and I've
come to the conclusion that while I think it is
515.58 -> technically possible to install Linux on this
specific arm-based Chromebook I don't think it's
521.94 -> technically possible for me to install Linux on
this arm-based Chromebook because it seems to be
527.88 -> an extremely difficult thing to do even if you
know what you're doing as far as I understand
533.1 -> basically what you have to do is like create
a Chrome OS install file on a flash drive and
538.74 -> then like grow a Linux distro inside that Chrome
OS install like a virus so that the virus Linux
546.96 -> kernel uses the Chrome OS kernel of the specific
Chromebook or summon and I can't just download
552.78 -> the correct kernel Linux because a Linux Savant
hasn't made one for the specific laptop yet so I
558.48 -> have to make it myself and I can't I'm probably
not understanding that correctly but that is my
563.52 -> interpretation of it and I just think it's not
within my capability to do it because a I don't
568.98 -> follow instructions very well and B the moment
the instruction tells me to do something I do
574.8 -> the thing and it doesn't happen monkey growls come
out and things get thrown around it just isn't in
581.88 -> my wheelhouse to do this whole thing and besides
considering that the Chrome OS install on here has
589.92 -> linuxy features built into it I think installing
like a just blindx bare metal onto it is not
598.2 -> even nearly worth the effort so with that please
don't ever ask me to install Linux on random crap
604.14 -> again because all of this additional strain on my
heart and subsequent reduction in life expectancy
609.54 -> is your fault random Linux commenter I hope you're
proud of yourself and until the next video bye-bye
618.12 -> foreign
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwfa97Z0mJQ