Post #3407690

Summary: Total cost: $40 on sale, plus about 4 hours of effort. At my hourly rate that's...way too expensive, really. I should have just bought a Tuxedo with Linux pre-installed. I would have saved time (and time is sometimes money) and gotten better hardware. But it works! Some lessons learned: + Google really doesn't want to allow booting a custom OS. There's lots of boot level "security". I am too annoyed to comment fairly, but considering that step one was to wipe all data, the words "security theater" come to mind for all of the crap that followed. + Linux Mint either doesn't work here, or got very unlucky. + Arch Linux stills scares me. + Ol' reliable: Debian brings home the win! Of course - building great operating systems is a collaboration, not a competition. (But Debian wins, anyway, tonight.) #google #degoogle #chromebook #linux #debian #archlinux #linuxmint