ChromiumOS experience
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I like it for the simplicity and ease of use, but there have been minor quirks that have put some dings in my experience, and make the OS seem quite hobbled.

2 finger tap for right click rarely works for me, I've resigned trying anymore. Every attempt registers as a single finger tap/click.

The Linux tools included will not install for me. The GUI installer fails at ~¾ with no explanation, and I can't find any commands to try through crosh and hopefully find out the error. After that I tried using Crouton, but regardless of distro or window management chosen (so far I've tried Xiwi and XFCE) none work.

I can't try some of the other Linux installation methods for Chromebooks because Linux Tools halfway installed Termina. I can see it's icon, but the system says it isn't installed, and it won't open. Adding my NAS in files was a bit buggy, and required a restart to view the network mounting options.

I also noticed that every webpage is missing the menu option to pin to the dock. I can only put Chrome apps in it. Youtube crashes it, every. time.

This isn't a problem with the OS build itself, but I've been very disappointed that I cannot find an app or extension to remap the top row keys. Guessing which key Chrome thinks each one is get annoying fast.

Overall, I don't think I'm going to keep R77 around. Once I get my eMMC adapter, I'm switching to Android in Freeform Window mode. I'm sure I'll revisit when the next releases come out, though, but I'll be booting it from SD.


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ChromiumOS experience - by tsago - 11-07-2019, 07:29 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-07-2019, 08:25 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by erchache2000 - 11-08-2019, 04:34 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tsago - 11-11-2019, 05:14 AM
ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-08-2019, 05:28 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by danielt - 11-08-2019, 05:49 AM
ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-08-2019, 05:52 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by Arglebargle - 11-08-2019, 05:52 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-08-2019, 10:33 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by Arglebargle - 11-09-2019, 08:17 PM
ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-09-2019, 09:13 PM
ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-11-2019, 05:19 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by gabeeg - 11-13-2019, 01:44 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-13-2019, 01:47 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by gabeeg - 11-13-2019, 02:15 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-21-2019, 01:28 PM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by richfm - 11-14-2019, 08:57 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 11-26-2019, 08:26 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by fpex73 - 01-15-2020, 03:14 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by Wizzard - 01-15-2020, 03:22 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by fpex73 - 01-15-2020, 03:42 AM
RE: ChromiumOS experience - by tophneal - 01-15-2020, 07:28 AM

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