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Giving an old chromebook new life with linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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Hello! I just went through the process of getting PopOS onto a chromebook. It went pretty smoothly and appears to be functioning which is great news. However the drive is soldered to the board, there are no slots for a second drive, and it's only 30gb in size.

Depending on how my friend wants to use it this may be fine (like if it is going to be a glorified browser). I'm trying to figure out a good way around it though. My current thought is to get one of those really small USB keys and basically use it like a semi permanent hard drive.

Any thoughts on potential other solutions, or suggestions for USB keys that would work well for this? Is there anything about Linux/Pop that would make the USB solution a bad idea? Or maybe a good beginner friendly distro with lighter requirements than Pop that still works well with chromebook hardware?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If it has a micro SD slot I would put one of those in it with a bit of a tape over over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I don't see an SD slot on it, nor did I notice a place to put one internally when I opened it up, unfortunately