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by ThePawnBreak 3599 days ago
ChromeOS is obviously unsuitable for most developers. So then, does Google guarantee that I will have no problems using my favourite Linux distro (or at least Ubuntu), including trackpad drivers, good battery life, functioning sleep mode, wireless and other usual Linux issues on not officially supported hardware?

Also, do you consider a 64GB SSD to be sufficient for a developer?
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sfifs 3599 days ago
Well I don't use a Pixel but I upgraded my SSD on HP Chromebook 14 to use as my personal development laptop some years ago - still using it.

Driver support wise it takes a year plus for all the hardware to get supported in the mainline Linux kernel is what I have found. What works is to dump the distro kernel and use the latest stable mainline.

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