[GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

[William Park]

I have HP Chromebook 11 G3 (PS. don't get this.  It chewed up original 
battery and replacement battery.)  Itemized reply below...

On 2022-08-26 18:40, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
> I am hoping to tap the wisdom of the list.  I'm going traveling and I
> don't want to lug around my 5.2 pound T420. Not on this trip.
> 
> If I buy a cheap refurb Chromebook from Best Buy or Canada Computers:
> - Will I have luck wiping ChromeOS and installing Debian? Can I still
> encrypt the disk?

I haven't wipe out ChromeOS.  It came with it, so I kept it.

> - If instead I just run Linux on Chromebook, can I run a wireguard VPN?

I tried Kubuntu/Ubuntu via crouton.  It's shell script and installs 
Linux distro as chroot.  You get full graphic desktop, unlike WSL which 
is just text terminal.  I don't see why VPN shouldn't work.

> - Can anyone recommend a minimum spec level for the machine?

Depends what you want to do.  Personally, Chromebook is waste of money. 
  I'd recommend Windows laptops.  You can wipe it out, do dual boot, use 
WSL, or run Linux on Hyper-V VM.