Wow; that's excellent. The Crouton page also mentions Crostini: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md
Which does not require running with dev enabled. Pixelbooks work with Crostini. Here's the hardware list by motherboard: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Supported-Now So three options at least: Crostini, Crouton, or Google Play Store. Gordon On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:56 PM Jim Passmore <j...@passmore4.com> wrote: > > I can heartily endorse crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) as a > way to install Linux on a chromebook. I did it for a couple years, and > Ubuntu ran beautifully, but there will of course be a dependency on how > powerful it is. I had an Acer C720 with 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, and an Intel > I3, where many Chromebooks of that era had 2GB RAM, 16GB SSD, and a Celeron. > > You will have to use developer mode, and enabling that does a power-wash on > the chromebook, but other than being careful not to lose any files, it's > pretty easy. I would definitely give it a try if I were you. > > -- > > *Jim* > > > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:50 PM randix <butterands...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So I'm not feelin' real warm and fuzzy at the moment, notwithstanding that > > I > > lost my laptop earlier today > > > > So I can't get Gnucash on a Chromebook > > > > So I can't get Gnucash Portable to work on a Chromebook > > > > If I want to "rely" on the GnuCash app (which I realize has zippo to do > > with > > the the "authentic" GnuCash), I have the challenge since I currently have > > no > > access to GnuCash, to export my account structure to that app unless I > > spend > > oodles of hours re-creating it, and I wonder even if I somehow did, how > > that > > app would accommodate the tons of data that I have in my backup GnuCash > > files (I know, I know, that's not a topic for this site). > > > > Sorta feelin' like what it must feel like when a nut laughs at a screw > > > > Bartender? > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
