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Computer Help and Support

hunter

(39,671 posts)

10. ChromeOS is built on Linux, just as Android is.

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:35 PM

Feb 2020

But until recently Linux was mostly inaccessible.

Newer Chromebooks have access to Linux, sandboxed in its own directory. This makes it difficult to screw up your computer.

You can select which of your personal directories you want to give Linux programs access to.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

I find Chromebook Linux useful for running command line utilities such as pandoc.

It doesn't support hardware video acceleration, microphones, or cameras yet, which makes some apps unusable.