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Tomi Adenekan • Edited

I got a chrome book for my 12th birthday, and nobody expected me to get into coding, (least of all me) so my thoughts on linux for chromeOS might be biased. I used to have chromeOS (I replaced it with galliumOS). I got one with Intel celeron, 4 gigs RAM and 16 gigs storage (the average chromebook specs because high end chromosome are rare and expensive, not worth it). It was awful, apps would not run, or they would run incredibly slowly. The storage was awful (although I think that that was just the computer itself), and like you said, the linux distro is a weird debian thing. Lastly and most frustratingly, it was incomplete. You had a working mic and a camera that is not working, the locate feature, standard on most linux distros, (to my knowledge) was missing. I just had to switch to a full linux distro.

However, I did like the fact that it you messed up, you could just press a few buttons and wait a few minutes to get a fresh new terminal, that encouraged me to explore the terminal. However, the cons far outweigh the pros.