Post #3407691

2026-06-25 23:17 UTC

Linux Mint microblog update: Why not put Mint on a cheap Chromebook? It's really difficult to get a modern Chromebook to boot to install media that isn't ChromeOs. Really really difficult. But once booted to the Linux Mint install media, things are just moving along with the usual chill simplicity...so far. I will update again once I am finish. (Update: No luck so far. But I will turn this into a thread with updates until my Chromebook runs some version of Linux.) Also, I clicked past so many warranty voiding warnings. I genuinely wouldn't bother if: 1. Google's terms of service were short enough to read. 2. Google had stayed out of my news feed for privacy concerns for, let's say, the past five years. But lacking both of those, I'm going to continue to wipe Google's OS off of any device I use. #ivoidwarranties #chromeos #linuxmint #chromebook #microblog

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@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange 2026-06-26 04:46

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

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