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Everywhere + Chromebook = Ugh!
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What chromebook is it? You may be able to install Linux on it
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/install-linux-chromebook0 -
I recall that even as recently as a few months ago this OP was still extolling the virtues of Chromebooks.
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What chromebook is it? You may be able to install Linux on it
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/install-linux-chromebook
Acer 14. C83-431 ultra thin
PS, bought Nov 2018This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Is this the topic you're looking for here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5918639/which-chrome-book&highlight=0 -
I recall that even as recently as a few months ago this OP was still extolling the virtues of Chromebooks.

Yes, how right you are, but of late, I'm doing much, or rather trying to do a lot on it and it can't kerp up.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Is this the topic you're looking for here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5918639/which-chrome-book&highlight=
Yes, that's it, let me go and re read it please, then I'll be backThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
What chromebook is it? You may be able to install Linux on it
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/install-linux-chromebook
Acer 14. C83-431 ultra thinThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
That should work then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjwPuYRKEOEAcer 14. C83-431 ultra thin
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That should work then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjwPuYRKEOE
What about for the people in the comments for whom it didn't work?
Then he won't even have a ChromeBook, just a brick.
I hope those who insisted that he buy a ChromeBook, will now stand up to be counted.0 -
EveryWhere wrote: »What about for the people in the comments for whom it didn't work?
Then he won't even have a ChromeBook, just a brick.
I hope those who insisted that he buy a ChromeBook, will now stand up to be counted.
Cmon everywhere one last favour for this old chap. Give me your valued opinion on a laptop less than 300,with the solid state whatever it is, I think you recommended a dell and left a link, but that link is dead now, bit like my Chromebook. Make an 80yr old a happy chappie please.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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