Summary:
Total cost: $40 on sale, plus about 4 hours of effort.
At my hourly rate that's...way too expensive, really.
I should have just bought a Tuxedo with Linux pre-installed. I would have saved time (and time is sometimes money) and gotten better hardware.
But it works!
Some lessons learned:
+ Google really doesn't want to allow booting a custom OS. There's lots of boot level "security". I am too annoyed to comment fairly, but considering that step one was to wipe all data, the words "security theater" come to mind for all of the crap that followed.
+ Linux Mint either doesn't work here, or got very unlucky.
+ Arch Linux stills scares me.
+ Ol' reliable: Debian brings home the win!
Of course - building great operating systems is a collaboration, not a competition. (But Debian wins, anyway, tonight.)
#google #degoogle #chromebook #linux #debian #archlinux #linuxmint