[Discuss] Linux on laptops

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/2015 07:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer
>> either ubuntu desktop or fedora.
>>
>
> Something that has intrigued me recently is the idea of running a fairly
> standard Linux on a Chromebook. They are small and cheap, and have long
> battery life.
>
>
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> The only thing I use them for that I really care about is my Nikon DSLR,
> and in that case my camera has dual SD slots and I have them configured in
> redundant mode where every picture gets stored on both cards. At any moment
> one of the two cards in my camera is a new one being used for the first
> time that when full will then be retired as archive (and backed up on
> multiple hard disks).
>
>
I've been running Ubuntu on Chromebooks via Crouton quite nicely.  BUT, a
big downside is throwing my 18 megapixel DSLR sd card into it... It just
doesn't have the 'horsepower' to display large images in a timely fashion.