The official tutorial for installing Ubuntu on Chromebook recommends installing Crouton, which runs Ubuntu 16.04 in a chroot. https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-chromebook#1-overview
However, in the recent years it is possible to natively install Ubuntu on Intel/AMD and ARM Chromebooks.
In the Intel/AMD chromebooks, nearly all hardware (except possibly fingerprint reader) work, and in most ARM Chromebooks everything except GPU acceleration works.
I suggest that the outdated Crouton answer (which recommends installing 16.04) is either updated, or deleted altogether in favor of better alternatives.
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I agree that documentation needs to be kept up on and the tough thing is getting somebody to do that. I don’t even know what is the current recommendations.
I thought Chromebooks can run Linux sessions now? And now the chatter of removing ChromeOS for Android is making the rounds again.
This is nothing new, the idea has been floated just a couple of years after Google’s CR-48 Chromebook pilot program ran, in 2010.
I would be happy to write the documentation. How do I do that?
Of course, there is no official recommendation as google does not support anything except ChromeOS on Chromebooks. However, I have several Chromebooks where I run Ubuntu (you can find my chromebook posts here, and I know which all things need to be tweaked.
ChromeOS can run a virtual Debian session. But my post was about natively installing Ubuntu. Nowadays it is possible to flash a custom coreboot firmware into the Chromebook to turn it into a regular laptop (people can now install even Windows on some chromebooks).
I agree this is not new. Just that the current best method need to be documented. The method described in the Ubuntu tutorial comes up first in google search, but it is heavily outdated.
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