Lol u should instal linux to usb media drive and connect it to chrome book

@@aleksi2858 That’s what I tried doing, but because it uses a ARM chip, you need to do a whole bunch of extra stuff to prepare the linux install so that the ARM chip recognizes it.

Erhm - There are a bunch of versions of Linux m8 - get one which have "general" support ARM processors. Also - sometimes you can install an older version of Linux and update it if the newer version wont install. It's a bit of a weird device you got your hands on there - so it might take a bit of working around it... It really shouldn't be that hard though when you have another device to download and make bootable USBs on.

@@Craider79 guys leave dawid, its a miracle he got this far

Your getting spammed here mate.. @DawidDoesTechStuff

'linux on a pregnancy test' make it happen! (and maybe a doom demo) 😆

Dawid tries to install Linux on 1980 Texas Instruments scientific calculator.

Please no. 😂

@@DawidDoesTechStuff please yes

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss!!!!!!!

Dawid moment

Like pressing the power button when it asks you to press any button

I did use Ctrl U initially to set up usb boot. After that it wouldn’t boot off the usb because I didn’t have the correct boot media on the usb drive. Only after that process did I get frustrated and got stuck on ctrl D because of a different guide. 😅

@@DawidDoesTechStuff you should have tried Ctrl+"press every key on the Kb", that would be my rage solution for sure

“There’s some line-ex happening. cool.” 😂

And getting badgered to rtfm which is terribly voluminous.

I don't understand that these days (a year ago) that are unable to install Linux on a computer. 😐 They REALLY should stick with Windows preinstalled...

Was bitching at the time about a chromebook that refused to output audio from the speakers ever again if headphones were plugged in once. This happened across literally a dozen distros. But thanks for the insult, it's fairly representative of the linux nerd community @@ibizenco

Good choice of distros, bad choice in laptops. haha

@@peeonthe3rdrail414 I had problems with Linux with a desktop...back in the late 1990s. I'm sure it's easier now but I swore off Linux.

that doesn't apply on an ARM chromebook no?

wthell?! lol

That sounds like a good challenge.

Was that worth it?

@@adityadivine2138 It was worth it. I got more performance out of it, but in my case it was kind of the only option for what I was trying to do. My device was also really well supported by Mr. Chromebox and Gallium OS. In Dawid's case, I'd probably give up too

@@iainmurphy9101 was yours arm based? I never quite understood why people buy chromebooks. I'll either buy an iPad or a cheap laptop with dos os and install Linux on it.

@@adityadivine2138 Mine was Intel based. As for why buy one in the first place, price is probably the main reason. In my case, the price was free

@@iainmurphy9101 oh now that makes sense

😂😂🙂

That’s what happened to Etika :(

you give up mental wellbeing when you become youtuber :P

LOL!!!! "...that's a sacrifice WE're willing to make..." , ROTFLMAO!

Yes please more linux on random crap. Than do Solaris or BSD on random crap. THIS would be great and we will all learn ;-)

screw is much better than asking company for unlock code, or trying to use some weird hacks

Oh I forgot all about removing the "security screw" in the Asus Chromebox I installed Gallium on...

How do i make a chromebook virtual machine? To simulate the locked up nature of a chromebook?

@CJ White the OP said “if you do fancy another attempt to install it, try it in a virtual machine first”, I was asking how can I simulate the hardware of a chromebook in a VM?

@@STORMFIRE07 You don't. That's not the sticking point here - it's a complication but the real problem appears to be Dawid's base level of knowledge with Linux. If he isn't comfortable with the install process & using it in an easier situation then he shouldn't even attempt to install it in a locked down situation like a Chromebook. I also said "walk before you can run" - IE, learn enough about Linux that you aren't typing things like "sudoapt" in terminal because you "heard linux has something to do with 'sudo apt'", and once you've got that baseline knowledge you can give it a go on a Chromebook - by which point the tutorials he was following will probably make a lot more sense.

I did initially use ctrl+u to set up booting off a USB, and then the one guide confused me. 😅 But the reason it didn’t work was because didn’t have correctly set up boot media. Which is really hard to make, like I was explaining at the end.

Yes now do it and try again

@@DawidDoesTechStuff For a simple program which sets up the bootable USB by itself, try Balena Etcher 😀

@@hahalolha gave up hope getting Ubuntu on my old iMac 2007 but this saved the day

@@hahalolha yeah, how complex can it be?

Dawid says it's all your fault it's entirely your fault cause you had to make him try linux on an arm based laptop instead of x86 which would have been easier for him to start out on🤣🤣

@@raven4k998 lmao

He said that he initially tried Ctrl U but it didn't work, so then he followed the guide that said to use Ctrl D and it didn't work either.

@@raven4k998 it was his fault for buying an arm based chromebook 🤣🤣

Windows has a thing called "DOS" which I already learned before you were born, and it makes me feel more powerful than Linux because I can play games.

Dawid makes that very joke less than two minutes into this video...

It is probably the way most people in RSA pronounce it, so he probably grew up saying it that way.

@@cup_and_cone RSA? I searched for it but came up with nothing?

​@@miserj maybe what he meant was Republic of South Africa, Dawid was originally from that region. Born in Namibia, entered college in South Africa.

@@Panzergruppe22 which is weird, because he doesn’t have a South African accent (the usual Afrikaans, anyway). I’ve never heard an accent like his before, and I’ve heard a lot.

the fact linux is a better option for running chrome than chromeos haha

@@aquaponieee truth ^^... I've got working 100% h264 and vp8 decoding under Linux over Chrome OS. Despite of battery efficiency, both of them are par since Chrome OS can still drain quickly due to lacking GPU accelereration in my chromebook(s) as well as the unofficial onces like brunch.

what distro did you install ?

@@lhommedelapampa9730 Ubuntu Desktop LTS.

I feel you bro, linux like systems which are nither too new nor too old and are based mainstream platforms.

My girlfriend has been enjoying Pop_Os and now is trying other distros like Garuda.

The absolutely easiest Linux version is Linux Mint Cinnamon. If my neighbor can use it, and he is definitely not computer literate, anybody should be able to use it. Of course he just uses it to surf the web and do emails. It won't run most Windows programs and so you have to learn Linux versions and in the past I have had problems getting it to recognize my network printers (sometimes the Linux version sees them and loads drivers and sometimes it sees them and decides it can't find drivers for them). I have one computer for Linux and another for Windows but could probably go all Linux if I wanted to.

I say the same about Windows 10. When it works it works, the moment you encouter the slightest issue it goes the seppuku way.

@@Hackerisitic no. i am a linux (chad) user so this is a little biased but whatever. linux isnt trying to be windows, yes its different, the command line is scary for new users. but thats the whole point, linux isnt meant to be windows. whenever i use windows i am astonished how weird some things are .e.g control panel and settings are both needed (why). as Pi Man said, distros like linux mint cinnamon are designed to feel simmalar to windows, but they arent trying to be the same.

Forgot to mention, but a tip to anyone trying this: - Just because your ARM processor has never been run on a certain OS doesn't mean it's impossible. But going that way will lead to you having to create/manipulate a Kernel to work. That's the path me and my friend took but it lead to us decreasing our life expectancy significantly. - The solution often requires taking steps from multiple "guides", for example you might get started with one guide, then switch to another part-ways through because it stopped working. Keep doing this until you are fully bald and your neighbors hate you. (Extra; Switch which OS you are trying to install, sometimes a Ubuntu guide works on Mint instead etc, keep experimenting.) - Running Linux as a virtual machine within chromium is a bit easier, you can get the aforementioned LXDE running with fever steps. Then all you do is "CTRL+R", type "Chrosh" and type "StartLXDE" to enter the VM. Practical for people that want to try Linux and use it but still want to keep the functionality of Chrome OS. - Don't be attached to the Chromebook. In the best case scenario (of a bricked system), you will still be able to use it for normal use, but stuff like saving files or playing mobile games will probably be broken. Worst case you have to butcher another Chromebook to solder new memory on the PCB, I've been there and can't say it's much fun. Good luck

@@llamacannon1714 or just buy used x86 laptop

@@vipvip-tf9rw Yeah it's the smartest alternative. Even better would be going for those school chomebooks at the end of school-semesters and buying them in bulk for almost nothing.

Wait why would you have to resolder new memory? AFAIK at worst you would have to hook up an external programmer to reflash corrupted firmware

Yeah it's great stuff, if you got time to learn it. It's got it's good points

Linux on ARM is definitely a thing though, that's what Raspberry Pis use. Android is basically a very customized version of ARM Linux.

just not for chromebooks

thing is your computer is not a rasberry pi lol

As far i know virtual box don't support arm...

arm is pain

@@vipvip-tf9rw me when someone shoots me in the arm

yeah chrome os being technically a fork of gentoo linux does not make it any any easier to install it on chromebook lol

He fumbles it so you don't have to!

tbf it's far easier than on a chromebook

It's not like this in this instance as there is no boot media available for it so you have to create your own. It would be amazing to just have a disk with a working toolchain! That sounds incredible but even a disk with a kernel and ininrd is not something you can have and the partitions on the disk have to be just so for a chromebook to recognise it as a bootable disk and the bootloader you have on the arm chromebook is not one that is easily replaced even if you had another bootloader. It kind of *is* rocket science or by now someone would have created a bootable disk image that you can just dd.

@@elly3713 that's a pretty angry reply this early in the morning

Bios in this context is more of an x86 thing. This is an arm chromebook. Legacy boot mode is an unsupported method for booting Linux distros available only on Intel/x86-based ChromeOS devices (sorry ARM owners).

That would really drive him crazy. Trying to run Steam on a Raspberry Pi is an absolute nightmare.

@@shade20x64 I did it just fine with Box64...

"My boas says I should use MS program. Anything else is illegal." -Office drone.

I have the office suite free of charge because the company I work for gives it to me. And I still use libreoffice because it is easy to use and I love open source software. It can be tricky for older users, but it is so similar that you learn it quick.

LibreOffice is the shit. Especially when Microsoft wants to make the entire Office suite into a yearly subscription based model.

@j0sh I hope "more modern interface" doesn't mean that fucking ribbon. D=

@j0sh libreoffice has a modern interface and you can change it to look like microsoft office without plugins

There's plenty of distros available that would require absolutely nothing complicated to get running. It really isn't all "sudo apt" command line instructions. Pretty much everything has a GUI in the most mainstream distros. Yeah, sure, in the past you couldn't avoid the terminal/command line but that really isn't the case anymore. It is beyond stupid how complicated some people make Linux look. This obviously isn't so much the case here as quite clearly the hardware in that chromebook is supported by next to nothing because it's so underwhelmingly useless, but still.

No. All my experiences with GNU/Linux instalation were pretty simple and straightforward.

Dawid please do this and film it. I wanna see your reactions when trying to get those drivers working.

not dawid, but no it wont

NO

Seems like a well balanced build to me. Bottlenecks will depend on game, etc

Would it bottleneck a 2060?

@@JustSumFella Pretty sure it would

Whenever you buy a new laptop just buy a windows laptop and install it on there. Why the dedication to the chromebook?

That's the experience I've always had . Me - "Hello, I just installed Linux and how do I..." Linux Forum - "Go away and learn like we did noob!" Whenever I mention this, I get someone angrily go "No you didn't you stupid noob!" Kind of proving my point. The irony. It makes me chuckle anyway. I haven't bothered again for years.