My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
birdculture
11 points
2 comments
May 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
tim-tday
I would agree except on mine they nerfed the storage, locked the boot loader and after normal use it just bricked one day. Using this machine required hours of $100+/hr effort. Great hardware specs otherwise and a good price on the used market (because it’s not a real computer). This product is a cool reminder that the market will tell you how good something is. A Chromebook with a real os is worth twice what one with chrome os is worth. I’m not an economist but that might say something about the value of chrome os.
dlcarrier
The --filesystem=btrfs uses the (in)famous btrfs filesystem instead of the default ext4. I don't have strong opinions either in favor or against btrfs, but since this is a more traditional distro (e.g., it is not an immutable distro like NixOS), I think that having support for snapshots is a must. If it's not immutable, don't use BTRFS for a small root filesystem. The BTRFS people themselves don't recommend using it in that case. It will quickly become immutable, whether you want it or not, after enough updates.