BRbrirec·Apr 21, 2023
Eh, my Chromebook makes an excellent VT220, and it won’t stop doing that well unless I drop it quite a few times.
I bought a 2-in-1 Chromebook for $65. It’s got 4 GB of RAM, a 32 GB eMMC, and a dual-core Pentium CPU, but when it only needs to run one copy of the Chromium engine with a couple handfuls of open tabs + some simple Linux utilities it’s absolutely perfect.
I don’t intend to try and use “real” Linux (and especially not Windows) on this thing any time soon, but it gets official support and updates until 2027.
And in case I do decide to convert it away from being a Chromebook, it came with a fully-featured, UEFI-capable copy of Coreboot installed. You have to put it into Developer Mode (which erases your entire user partition to do), but then I can dual-boot with a microSD or USB drive, or I can install Linux (or even Windows, sup
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If I do repurpose it, I can also flash the firmware with one that is more capable when it comes to Windows drivers, but doesn’t support dual-booting without something like Brunch (https://github.com/sebanc/brunch)