Is is possible to just wipe chromeOS off of a chromebook and install a full Linu...

zmmz · on Oct 12, 2014

Yep, that's what I did on my Dell 11 (wolf) with Xubuntu and almost everything working out of the box.I just created a vanilla Xubuntu USB, turned on developer mode and made a bios patch (the Dell has a bug, other Chromebooks don't require it), and installed.

After installation, I had to run something like two scripts to get the trackpad and suspend working.

Battery life is not 10+ hours as it is with chromeOS, probably closer to 7/8.

Further reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/ (I didn't follow the Chrubuntu instructions, but used the community to get a touchpad fix) and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromebook

redthrow · on Oct 12, 2014

Yes, there's even a customized Ubuntu distro just for Acer C720:

https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/14/

It's a great Linux machine. Everything works out of the box.

ewoodrich · on Oct 12, 2014

Yes, you can. And Chrubuntu has great driver support for the c720 and other popular models, but I still ran into some bugs with suspend and Wifi, so I stick with a chroot.

DrJones1098 · on Oct 13, 2014

What is chroot? Just popping outside of the GUI and using the linux underneath?

DrJones1098 · on Oct 13, 2014

Is chroot just using the built in command line?

ewoodrich · on Oct 14, 2014

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

Crouton is a install script that uses a chroot to install Ubuntu through the shell on ChromeOS. You still need to enable developer mode, and it uses the ChromeOS kernel, but other than that it looks and feels like a "normal" Ubuntu installation.

_h8ft · on Oct 12, 2014

Not properly. I wouldn't waste your time and get a Windows machine instead which are a lot more Linux-friendly.