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You need a flagship Chromebook for proper Crostini support.

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What's not supported on my $280 Acer Chromebook 13?

Not having 8GB and a powerful enough CPU?

OK, is Crostini different than the Linux VM? 'cause that does work.

Having a proper battery friendly dual core GNU/Linux laptop with 8GB, which sometimes struggles to load everything, having seen the hardware specifications of Pixelbook, the testing platform for Crostini, I have some doubts anything less powerful can take the load of Chrome + Android containers + Linux VM/containers, including the required harddisk space.

Crostini is the codename for the official Linux VM support.

I used Crostini without issues on an Acer Chromebook 13 while traveling for a week or so. The performance was as good as you would expect for a laptop in that category. I didn't find it noticeably worse than when I used Crouton (which isn't behind a virtualization layer).

Thanks for the feedback, was it the 4 GB or 8 GB model?

A 4GB model I bought in 2016.

Thanks.

Crostini also works just fine with 2GB on a Samsung Chromebook 3 (a.k.a.'Celes' which is available for $100 on a Black Friday special[1] - the 4GB version is $30 more). It's does swap to disk if you too many Chrome tabs open, but it runs ssh, vim and VS Code like a champ. I have not attempted to run the Android build-chain.

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12L9SM7k-Z6LSsGvdi7do...

Why do you think this? Crostini works fine on low end Chromebooks.

I answered on a sibling thread.

Yeah, but I'm saying your answer was wrong. It works fine.

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