Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
by samuraiseoul on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:07AM
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They're talking about Termina and the Google provided Linux solution.
It's misleading to people who haven't been in the ChromeOs ecosystem before to compare your Crouton setup to Termina. Crouton is not an officially supported Linux on Chromebook solution and requires you to turn on developer mode on the Chromebook which warns you that you are in unsupported land and things may not go as planned.
If you know how Debian works, the new solution Google has for Linux on Chromebooks should work fine for most people. There's only a few gotchas at all anymore. Snaps even work if you know what you're doing.
A few weeks ago I tried to run Debian and Ubuntu on an older Chromebook with Crouton (also a container solution).
Systemd failed booting, because the last published Chromebook kernel for that device had an incorrectly applied backport of some patch, which made nonexistent system calls return garbage data instead of erroring out.
You can read the details here:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11974
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/3914#issuecommen...
This kind of stuff took me many tens of hours to debug, and I am relatively experienced with tasks like that.
If you want to have an easy time with Linux, better run the kernel provided with the OS. Containers don't do that.