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Agreed, this is why I find Chromebook, with its great Linux container support, so nice. I know the author mentioned he tried this on a Lenovo Chromebook and said it was dog slow. I have it running on my Pixelbook and with maxed out RAM it worked well.

Soooooo sad there hasn't been much news on a new Pixelbook, was such a great device.

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Can you properly install a browser other than chrome on a chromebook these days?

you can install firefox on linux and run it as an app in chromeos but the performance isn't great on pixelbook i7. I ran into a lot of issues with regard to networking between the chromeos layer and the linux layer, its like they're nat'd or something rather than bridged, so good luck running a test environment for some things without extra steps.

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