@reynhout I understand, maybe you will consider Gnome then? Best deals today: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Dell Inspiron 13 5310, and more, OnePlus 10T: Price, specs, features, & everything else we know so far, Apples MacBook Pro models are up to $300 off, Android smartwatches may finally be able to compete with the Apple Watch, How to reserve a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 or Flip 4 & get up to $200 in credit, Best deals today: Microsoft Surface Pro X, Beats Studio 3, Marshall Stanmore II, and more, Get a 256GB Samsung Galaxy S22 for just $100, Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 announced: All you should know. Here's how! Get the only spam-free daily newsletter about wearables, running a "maker business", electronic tips and more! Visual design. privacy statement. I haven't used it enough to shake out any problems it might have. I feel that any decision should be made by measuring actual setups on representative hardware, and not based on our own recommendations. Xfce may look nice and neat, for example Zorin Os. Samsung is no longer accepting more beta-testers into the One UI 4.0 Beta program, indicating the final software might release soon. I will add that I tested various graphical environments, distributions on EDGAR and it seems (BANJO). sudo do-release-upgrade -d will work? Still, learning Linux is not a disadvantage at all and being free from Googles tracking of everything you do is another huge advantage. What about LXDE ? edit2:takes a while nonetheless, still, Gallium would be ideal for older models - plus it's a bit easier to set up, i just wish the developers would give us a progress update on 4.0, i eventually jumped ship after 20.04 came out, It might be dead, this thread was opened when 20.04 was new. I absolutely hate how some applications don't obey the system settings and the location of certain options in the settings are completely nonsensical. Thematically, we've historically chosen blue tones, and a vaguely architectural subject. Using LXDE would only serve to improve resource usage and performance. Pocketnow.com. Is there a better place for an IM back and forth tinkering with things than this thread? We are also happy to allow redistribution in any form the original licenser desires. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2018/Results/R2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2018/Winners, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_winners, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Winners, https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility, https://www.reddit.com/r/GalliumOS/comments/nnst00/is_galliumos_4_still_in_development/. I honestly think XFCE is outdated. 20.04 release also saw support for HiDPI (looks great by default on a Haswell Iris MBP and T480s). That's my only observation so far. I think my biggest concern with a change of DE would be making sure to keep things consistent with 3.0 (which MATE currently is). Check out the Gallium website, GitHub repo, and Hardware Compatibility wiki for more details.

it has very low cusumption and looks great on Lubuntu for exemple. I think that there is no point in doing too much revolution. re: the name: @mrjohnc Those are great images, thanks for posting! That should bring up a command line interface in the Google Chrome browser. With so many good modern DEs I think it will be refreshing to have something new. Lxqt or Mate. Maybe give it a shot? edit:you can install ubuntu normally on the chromebook then do the process so you dont have to use legacy boot Simple/Modern/Stable. Thats a huge difference and a huge advantage. If KDE has adequate performance and it's overall resource usage lies somewhere between LXDE and Xfce, that's an improvement on all accounts. But as I mentioned, it's better to stay with xfce. KDE has improved dramatically in recent years, both resource-wise and UX-wise. FYI: I have successfully installed and run GalliumOS on my Acer Chromebook (CB515-1HT, Apollo Lake). You can install Linux on the device! or how to save optimizations (if there are any) and tweaks on regular Ubuntu 20.04? I like GNOME but I consider it a bad fit for GalliumOS. On this model it was near the keyboard connector ribbon and it stands out since its wider than the other screws so that it can make a connection on the motherboard that disallows overwriting the firmware. The more that most chrombooks are not very efficient equipment. For personal information management and communications, the Gnome Evolution email program is almost as good as Outlook on Windows and much nicer than any groupware program on macOS. Chromebooks have been around for a while now. New Products Adafruit Industries Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! The difference between pieces of software in terms of memory consumption may turn out to be more about the theme resources than actual code-level features, for example. A cold boot of GalliumOS, takes about 500Mb of RAM, which leaves 3.5Gb of RAM to run actual programs and open web pages. Chrome OS is, after all, based on a Linux kernel, but usually greatly dumbed-down from all of the other powerful capabilities of Linux in order to make it easier to use. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. not on the desktop image itself. While the low-end inexpensive processor in a $99 Chromebook might not be able to handle some things as quickly as a more-expensive device, with Gallium Linux, its still absolutely possible to use high-end software for smaller tasks. Still, Id rather remove the required Google server connection and have a more freedom-friendly personal computer since Google isnt really trust-worthy anymore.

I will add that suspend/resume work fine under the other distros except Linux Mint. Already on GitHub? Et Voila! Should you re-enable the galliumos repos after the upgrade? I agree with Morlok8k, for a similar reason: Gallium was named after Gaul (the early name for France), and Francium was named for France. Python for Microcontrollers Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python-Powered Lightsabers, Custom Python Silicon & More! Likewise we realised years ago that "wakeups" were more important to battery life than raw CPU percentage statistics. Here I see no major problem as in the above mentioned compared to e.g. For a long time, thats really the only thing Chromebooks were good for. Maybe, depending on the exact specs of your configuration. Before the actual launch event takes place, you can reserve your Galaxy Fold 4 and/or Flip 4 and get up to $200 in credit. Do you have an older Chromebook? But let's get to the point. I think we're pretty open on licensing -- any agreement that allows us to use the image (of course) and modify it for our purposes (generally limited to cropping, some color shifts, and sometimes a small GalliumOS logo). Bike helmets and wearables. These are my small comments and observations. Of the choices between Fluorine, Francium, Fermium, Flerovium; With the device shut down, you should be able to press Esc+F3(refresh)+Power to boot into Recovery Mode. Samsung announced the Tizen TV Platform License thatll allow other TV manufacturers to use the operating system on their smart TVs. Linux command line applications are very efficient too. A Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE). She refers to Chromebooks as Jitterbug laptops which is a reference to those overly basic mobile phones that only have 3 buttons so that you can only call 3 people. :). I think the best is Francium, as it sounds the closest to Gallium. More instructions are here if you need more details. Join 32,000+ makers on Adafruits Discord channels and be part of the community! You can now take advantage of the Apple Music Android application on Windows 11, albeit you may need to do some extra steps to get it working. You can use it right away if you want, but this is all running off of the USB stick. Resource consumption in version 4.14 has not increased dramatically, nor is it very large compared to other environments . Stop breadboarding and soldering start making immediately! Next, we run the firmware update script by typing or copy/pasting: You can find more instructions on MrChromebox.tech. Part of this issue came up in the IRC channel when someone noticed that modern XFCE and KDE desktops are roughly equivalent in terms of resource consumption in 2020. Luckily, web-based apps have evolved a lot over the past 25 years and weve got some really great functionality that can be accessed all via just a web browser. First, using a separate computer, I downloaded the ISO installer file that was made for this Chromebooks specific processor. So test it yourself. GalliumOS is a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices based on Xubuntu. All of the basics that an average student would need are still here. Now, you have to be careful which Chromebook you buy as some of them arent very well supported by the below firmware replacement and Gallium Linux operating systems. The big advantages come when you want to learn more useful stuff that you might not learn from the teachers in school or when you might want to do some actual work.

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 chipset for wearables. I can make a longer list of pages (the competitions I linked to have run for several years) and then if you pick images I can prepare the credits if you like. http://adafru.it/discord. There is a very good list of supported and unsupported Chromebooks on the Gallium OS wiki page, so be sure to reference that. I think we all have emotional attachments to various desktop environments, and feel like recommending our preferences as a way to support our own value as decision makers. I agree with GNOME being too 'unique' for this -- while the use of Wayland is tempting due to promises of significant future support and a lot of graphical offloading being done, it's also quite weird in many ways -- you literally have to install an extension to prevent the Super key from invoking a graphically intensive presenter :(. Not that it's terribly important, but I like Fermium. It's a worthy option if you're looking for a great value in a mid-range phone. I went with the traditional ISO install. 1 for potato chromebooks (2gb) and 1 for more modern ones? Personally I'm leaning toward something warmer and maybe more organic. The Chromebooks shes used at school are similarly limited in her mind, and Id say she would be correct. How would you do that? Well occasionally send you account related emails. My teenage god daughter accidentally spilled water on her really nice HP convertible Windows 10 tablet/laptop PC and of course the warranty doesnt cover that. Adafruits Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. I wouldn't get your hopes up You signed in with another tab or window. There are even a number of video editors out there that will run. I do think KDE has superior visual design to Xfce and the HiDPI and multi-monitor support are probably, at the very least, better than Xfce's.

Youll want to launch the Installer in order to get GalliumOS installed directly onto the Chromebooks storage (so you dont need the USB stick anymore). Multi-monitor support / switching. Question, for the Chromebooks you're planning on supporting should there be new github issues for each one? Please consider gnome as a DE, it has really evolved in the last years. In my mind, Xfce and KDE are strong candidates. Modern, fast, low resource for a modern desktop (same as Plasma), few bugs (Plasma is full of bugs from my experience), extremely touch friendly, my Samus would love it.

Manjaro Xfce with a default look also doesn't look bad. Cheers, Something like Pantheon Desktop would be a good alternative. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Question: What is the licensing requirement for background images, there are many amazing open license images (usually CC BY-SA 4.0) on Wikimedia Commons e.g. Kde.

Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Should you buy the new Google Pixel 6a or the OG Pixel 6? They use there different applications from different environments from eg lxde, xfce, cinnamon etc. Acer chromebook 15 version with i3 processor ?.

I would be okay with a switch to LXQT, though it is a desktop that I haven't really tried that much, so I am not aware of any downsides to using it. After this finishes, the Chromebook should be able to boot to a USB disk installer. It does lack a lot of modern creature comforts that I think would make the whole user experience feel very dated for users with faster machines. I tried your instauctions and dist-upgrade returns nothing. No surprise, but it emphasizes the importance of starting small. KDE annoys me for a lot of the same reasons Windows does. Youll get right into GalliumOSs desktop environment. Subscribe at, on Revive end of life Chromebooks with GalliumOS based on Xubuntu #Chromebook @GalliumOS @Xubuntu, We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right, Snap-Together Folding Dodecahedron Frame by, Parametric Magnetic Dust Port #3DThursday, Celebrating over 35,000 members in the Adafruit, New Products 7/13/2022 Featuring #adafruit, New nEw NEWS From Adafruit Round-Up: April, May. Those Chromebooks that do support Linux and Android apps are often in the $500+ price range more expensive (heres a list), but moving forward most new Chromebooks should support the Linux container. to your account. Here's every bit of news, leak, rumor, feature, and spec about the OnePlus 10T that has surfaced on the internet. I'm finding additional issues which are not included on https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility, e.g trackpad doesn't work properly, touchscreen doesn't work, @mrjohnc not until testing against 4.0 alphas starts, since there's no correlation to what doesn't work now and what won't work then, OK, cool, thanks, I'm very happy to test stuff then to work out what does and doesn't work :). No problem, let me check about the crediting, I'm confident it will be acceptable (licensing is part of my job) but just to double check. @guipsfr Back in the GalliumOS 1.0 era, we decided that Xfce was adequately better than LXDE to justify the additional resources.

With Gallium Linux, you can run LibreOffice which is pretty close to feature parity with the full x86 version of Microsoft Office and has come a long way since its early days. This one is Intel Braswell, so thats the one I chose. Next, we have to remove the write protection screw. That's from a year ago, though. Samsung will announce the next generation of foldables on August 10. JPs Product Pick of the Week 7/19/22 MintyBoost Kit@adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick. We are reader supported. A lot of Chromebooks have 4gb ram, so a lot of desktops environments like the latest GNOME, Cinnamon and based derivatives are going to use a lot of memory. Ps. All rights reserved - Busy Pixel Media, There is a very good list of supported and unsupported Chromebooks on the Gallium OS wiki page, Here are some detailed instructions and options for installing GalliumOS on a Chromebook, downloaded the ISO installer file that was made for this Chromebooks specific processor, One UI 4.0 could roll out to Galaxy S21 Series as soon as November or December, Samsungs Tizen OS will soon run on many more TVs from other brands, macOS Monterey out today, depending on system and region, Apple Music is now available on Windows 11 as an Android app, Nothing Phone 1 Review: The Midrange Jack of All Trades. To join, head over to YouTube and check out the shows live chat well post the link there. The overall UX would be negatively impacted. The focus on preventing needless "wakeup" events helped interface responsiveness as well as battery consumption, but we had to take measurements to make it happen.

Then I used BalenaEtcher to burn the ISO file to a cheap USB memory stick in order to create a bootable installer. A change would be nice. Bugs crop up occasionally but it's no big deal, and resource usage is okay. Electronics Electrical Tape and PVC Glue to the Rescue! It would be better in this case for pantheon desktop environment. I recently bought a $99 refurbished HP Chromebook 11 with the intention of taking it apart and converting it to a Gallium OS Linux laptop. GalliumOS comes with Chromium installed (the open-source version of Chrome), which means it can do anything a regular Chromebook could do using essentially the same browser. In my previous measurements, the DEs that start higher also grow more quickly as DE apps are launched. It could be like before, or something like the distribution of Peppermint Os. Follow Adafruit on Instagram for top secret new products, behinds the scenes and more https://www.instagram.com/adafruit/, CircuitPython The easiest way to program microcontrollers CircuitPython.org, Maker Business Foxconn executive discusses the dramatically scaled back project in Wisconsin, Wearables Safety first! That list also shows which models cant be upgraded or which ones may have problems. I ran some quick tests on the latest releases: This is booted to the desktop from the live image, and the DE default terminal application launched to run free -m after the machine settles down. Have an amazing project to share? I'm more concerned about RAM than disk consumption, because the latter is easier to mitigate. GalliumOS has always looked extremely clean to me, and as long as that stays true I'd be pleased with anything. Here are some detailed instructions and options for installing GalliumOS on a Chromebook. It won't - you should fresh install a newer distro, or you can just tough it out on GalliumOS until the June 2023 End of Life for Ubuntu 18.04. Once thats done, a guitar pick will nicely unsnap the keyboard to reveal the computers insides. Did you know there is a date at which updates are no longer possible? Parallel efforts for other DEs or WMs would be great material for the wiki or Reddit tutorials, and if they gained enough traction, it would be great to incorporate them into the distro. Gnome (and by extension Budgie) are quite fast and responsive on my primary computer. It would run effortlessly on your SAMUS but those high-end Chromebooks are a bit of an outlier. Just look at the list of changes. That being said, I don't personally care for Xfce either. With the Chromebook powered off, plug the USB disk into the USB port, and boot it up. I chose the Install full ROM Firmware option to get the full replacement with coreboot, although I did back up the original ROM to a cheap USB stick first. Since it's modern/polished/touch friendly/stable. When a device reaches AUE, automatic software updates from Google will no longer be provided. It is significantly lighter weight than any of the other DEs. I would sugest something more modern than XFCE; between XFCE and KDE, I would go for KDE. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand. Default apps. @bbtdev It will always be possible to install a different DE on GalliumOS, but I expect we will only ship (and focus our customization/compatibility work on) one choice that works well on all supported models. Its called Auto Update policy and for each model Chromebook/Chromebox. Step 1 in getting this G5 HP Chromebook 11 upgraded to Gallium Linux is to peel off the rubber feet on the bottom and remove all of the screws. I didn't get that on the baytrail version. Can you run GNOME on a Chromebook? Gallium Linux, on the other hand, not only gives you the power of a real computer, but also provides some heightened capabilities for technological freedom. Here's everything you need to know. Other apps (e.g. honestly there is better linux solutions now like breath: https://github.com/cb-linux/breath, That's a really good project, but it's not an option for devices older than 2019, though - plus it requires you to build the image yourself from an existing Linux installation for legal reasons, so it's not as easily accessible, my device is from 2016 and it works flawlessly, All Chromebooks released after 2017 are supported. Normally when I talk about this it's a positive thing, we need more unique user experiences, but for GalliumOS we want something that instantly feels familiar for Windows and macOS users. By clicking Sign up for GitHub, you agree to our terms of service and Lxde is barely maintained, it has been replace by LXQT which is pretty good. How I can contribute or test the distro on my Skylake? Worth reading the release notes. We are more than happy to include attribution, as long as it can be in the documentation -- i.e. Itll run Blender for 3D modeling and animation. Xfce would be easy, most of our work from 4.12 will apply directly. @spacehobo Agreed. Now we can install Mr. Chromeboxs custom ROM Firmware! LXDE is very lightweight and super fast, It would be a great candidate for slow computers like the Bay Trails and Braswells. Today's best deals come from Amazon, and Woot, where you will find amazing products, including the Microsoft Surface Pro X, Beats Studio 3, and more on sale, Samsung's latest Summer sales event will get you insane savings on the Samsung Galaxy S22 series. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. Wouldn't it make more sense for GalliumOS 4.0 be focused on 22.04 instead of 20.04? Ok, is it possible to have two DE options? Xfce look, here you can look how other distributions solved the problem. But at the same time we want something more modern and that enhances the desktop or laptop usage as well. The next step is enabling Developer mode in Chrome OS. EYE on NPI Maxims Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey, New Products Adafruit Industries Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! Did you read the instructions above those? With a starting price of 399 ($475), the Nothing Phone 1 will likely to be a favorite for many, and delivers a level of polish thats unexpected for a first-time product.

First of all, thank you for your efforts. I also find that it is the only distro that supports external monitors on my Chromebook (via USB-C to HDMI). Planning and preparations for GalliumOS 4.0. I find it's very similar to Xfce, but just with better adherence to principle of least surprise and fewer bugs. Chromium supports web-apps as well, so creating shortcuts like in Chrome OS is totally do-able. The new Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chipset gives us hope that we may finally see more powerful Android smartwatches that can last for more than a day on a single charge, and compete against the Apple Watch. The only disadvantage of installing Gallium Linux on a Chromebook is that youll have to learn how to use and maintain Linux which may be a bit more complicated than the zero maintenance Chrome OS. What to do? In the realm of lightweight DE's, there's also MATE, which I find runs well on resource-constrained hardware (on an Acer Aspire 722 with 2G total, I'm sitting at 441MB used at login) -- while also being fairly mature. I think it would be irresponsible for us to ship something with such a drastic shift in user experience and without taking into account how well it performs on weaker hardware in particular. I would have to try both of them out on hardware to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure as it currently stands my vote would go to KDE. Today's best MacBook Pro deals come from B&H and Amazon.com, where you will find the 14 and 16-inch models on sale. After booting into Chrome OS, weve got to get into acrosh shell with CTRL+ALT+T, shell, enter or VT2: CTRL+ALT+F2, login chronos. So Xfce is the default, but I'd be interested in jumping to another DE if it brought meaningful improvements in at least some of these areas: I haven't seen anything about KDE, in my brief usage, that disqualifies it. You could easily install a web server and learn to build websites right on the device. Its probably possible to install Windows on this now that the firmware is overwritten, but a cold boot of Windows 10 takes up about 3.5Gb of RAM. So she also needed something for school. From Google: Every Chrome device receives regular updates from Google until it reaches its Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date, listed below, subject to support from component manufacturers. That's not out of the question but I severely doubt it. Resource constraints are important, but we may all be surprised at what actually consumes memory on a modern system Most of it turns out to be data (images, videos, documents, etc) rather than program code, these days. it is said they have pre-alpha 4.0 builds and the team are trying to make trade between supporting old models and later ones which are compatible with other Linux systems by default. The majority of the Chromebooks in school can basically only run Googles Chrome web browser. Are you going to have a good user experience? Those who dislike gnome are few, but extremely vocal and loud. Firefox) are the same on all DEs. Our presumptive upstream distribution is Ubuntu 20.04, which released yesterday. Have a question about this project? None of the other distros I've tried (Lubuntu 21.10, Ubuntu 21.10, Xubuntu 21.10, Pop!_OS 21.10, Linux Mint 20.3 -- both Main and Edge) support external monitors -- per issue #607. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. #Python #CircuitPython @micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi. https://www.reddit.com/r/GalliumOS/comments/nnst00/is_galliumos_4_still_in_development/ Lxqt is not bad, but it seems to be an unfinished environment for me. Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer! In this guide, we'll try to answer whether it's worth buying the newly launched Google Pixel 6a or if you should buy the OG Pixel 6 from last year. Adafruit IoT Monthly Nautical Barometer, Raspberry Pi Pico W, and more! Then pressing Ctrl+D will get you into developer mode. That means you can do lots of things that arent possible in Google Docs really important basic things like custom style names in the word processor app. For the most part, theyve been relegated to schools who need cheap laptop computers that can open a web browser and connect to the internet. For one thing, it's very unique. External links may earn us a commission. Absolutely. I haven't seen LXDE in a few years though, so it's definitely worth checking again. All the other hardware we're targeting here looks like a potato compared to that. We may have been paying attention to the wrong thing for a while, now! The much anticipated macOS Monterey OS update is now rolling out to supported Apple devices, including MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro. Many people have become accustomed to the xfce environment, it is also easy to use and does not overwhelm the configuration as in e.g. Today, some of the more-expensive Chromebooks have added support for running Android apps as well as some Linux programs via a virtualized Crostini container. Now weve got an Intel Braswell laptop with 4Gb of RAM and 16Gb of storage running a Xubuntu Linux distribution with the XFCE desktop environment. Sign in You can use GIMP, RawTherapee, or Darktable for photo management and manipulation. It works fine with the exception of the known issues: 1) internal sound, 2) suspend/resume. I think that the XFCE desktop currently being used is fine. I've been following the development of Galliumos for a long time and I think the Xfce desktop environment should stay. The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! A lot of information about the upcoming OnePlus 10T has leaked ahead of launch. Todays best deals come from Amazon and Woot, where you will find the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, several Windows laptops, the Apple Watch SE and more products on sale. The release of Xfce 4.14 has brought support for HiDPI support as well as other changes. If this is true, it means that we need to pay close attention to our definition of and criteria for a "lightweight" desktop interface.