Re: [PLUG] Linux on a Chromebook?

[Adam Schaible via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks for the tip Keith, looks like Manjaro uses a swappiness default of 60 too, I've bumped it down to 20 and will see how it (mis)behaves over the next few days. I hate to complain too much about this lappy since I paid literally $119 for it on Black Friday 2018, so there's also a "you get what you pay for" element at play here. Next time I find myself at Wally World for whatever reason (it might be a while...) I'll have to find myself a "real" Chromebook to hack.

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On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 19:27, Keith C. Perry via plug wrote:
> I have an Acer Chromebook for Work from 2016 and what I've always done 
> is run Linux for the sd card slot.  Its a stock Ubuntu Gnome distro.  
> I've never done any tuning on it because its more or less just works- 
> the less part is that the mouse requires you to have more of your 
> finger on the trackpad and audio does not work.  Typical hardware 
> issues with some of these Intel chips (and they still haven't been 
> resolved) but it doesn't bother me since I'm not in there that often.
> 
> My model is the 8Gb so that could be why I'm not seeing the same issues 
> you but that really sounds like the classic problem of Linux not really 
> swapping in a "sane" way.  While zram on modern CPUs is a win could the 
> issue be that your swapiness is still to high?  Do "cat 
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness", I forget what the default number is but I 
> would cut it by more that half to start- if its 60, set it to 25 or 
> even 20.  Maybe that will help.
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Floyd Johnson via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2020 9:21:03 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] Linux on a Chromebook?
> 
> I've spent about a year with GalliumOS (a derivative of Ubuntu more or 
> less tuned to work with Chromebooks), step one being to set up a 
> conventional swap partition. For me, the default zram strategy doesn't 
> seem to mix well with IDEs and Web browsers at the same time when you've 
> only 4GB to begin with-more thrashing than a heavy metal act.
> 
> I'm considering using a different distro.
> 
> What experiences have you had with Linux on Chromebooks with a Celeron 
> N3060 ("Braswell"), 4GB RAM, and 32 GB eMMC internal storage (this Acer 
> CB3-431 has the codename "EDGAR")?
> 
> 
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