I’m looking at picking up a used chromebook for my kid to use after installing a Linux OS on it. So I have two questions that are very related:

Which would be a better one to get: Lenovo S330 or Acer CB3-431. Is one going to be easier to get the OS to run on?

The other question is which distro is going to work the easiest? I have been running Linux exclusively for over a decade on my person computer (Fedora currently) and my phone (PinePhonePro with Debian (well, Mobian anyways)) so I’m very comfortable with Linux in general, but haven’t played with this kind of hardware before so I’m not sure what the limitations will be.

  •  ReversalHatchery   ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) 
    4•10 months ago

    I run opensuse leap on a convertible chromebook and I like it. There are some problems, though, most related to sleeping, but in recent software probably all of the issues would be gone.

    Or at least, it’s much, much better than my previous (ancient…) one, but also I would just not use it with the original os that is made by google. Hell, besides the data mining that’s usual to google, they wanted me to log in with a google account to not delete my files when I reboot it!