Trent, The chrome books are nice, but there is a caveat for us blind users. Getting accessibility to work on there is a huge pain and requires visual assistance to activate (unlike OS X with voiceover, or any of the accessible enabled linux distributions)
Still, if I wanted to install a full linux distribution on there, would it be possible? -Eric > On Jan 5, 2019, at 8:08 PM, trent shipley <[email protected]> wrote: > > And who is it for? My parents use Macs. I would be OK if they used > Chromebooks. Never is a million years would I give them a solid Linux > desktop, let alone a potentially flaky, cheap, out of the box Linux. > > Why are you in the market for a cheap out-of-the-box Mint machine? There are > some pretty decent, affordable Windows machines out there--assuming you don't > have a reflex objection to Windows or Microsoft. A Chromebook can't be beat > for cheap, functional, and out of the box, and my understanding is that it's > based on Gentoo, deep, deep under the covers. So Chromebook is a really good > choice for a cheap, user-proof computer, unless you have a phobia of Google > or Chromebook. > > Trent. > > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:57 PM Kevin Fries <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Joe, > > You need to balance your risk of "working out of the box" with "cheapest". > > You want it to work with Linux, out of the box, Zero incompatabilities... > simple, System76. It will come with either PopOS, or Ubuntu, from which Mint > dirives. Open the box, enjoy your laptop. > > Cheapest, is a crap shoot with Linux. Many of the cheapest do funny things > with the boot sequence thanks to Windows 10. But, I have yet to see one that > can not be made to work in a long time. 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