On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I guess Chromebooks come running Chrome OS, which is "Linux based," but > what are your opinions? Do they have a good package system? Is it somehow > related to Android? > > I don't think there's even a package management system. My sister got > There really isn't. =[ It's all chrome extensions and such. a chromebook and I couldn't even figure out how to install a native photo > editor (anything from MS paint to gimp would've been OK) or an FTP client. > Everything seems to be just web apps that get bookmarked on your desktop. > > If I had one I'd install Ubuntu on it ASAP. > I ended up throwing Fedora on it within a week and it actually all works out of the box... even the touchscreen! (Although admittedly, the touchscreen works a lot better on ChromeOS) After a few months, I tried out ChromeOS again, only this time I installed crouton and... it's not so bad, really. But yeah, I'd recommend installing Linux if you want to do anything relatively serious on it. All my real work is done in an ssh session, so it works perfectly for me. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130822/eaf9ccfc/attachment.html>