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You’ll Soon Be Able to Run Linux Apps on Any Chromebook: Here's What You Need to Know



Provided you see the Linux-related option, click on it and then follow the steps that appear to enable Linux apps for your Chromebook. The system will ask you for a username (which can be anything you like; it really doesn't matter) as well as ask how much disk space you want to devote to your Linux area (a factor you can always change later, so don't worry too much about it now). Then, it'll take a few minutes to install all the necessary elements and prepare everything to run.




You’ll Soon Be Able to Run Linux Apps on Any Chromebook




Next in our list of not-so-user-friendly considerations to remember: Linux apps won't automatically update themselves or necessarily even notify you about available updates; instead, it's up to you to periodically check in for updates via the terminal. On the plus side, you can search for updates to all your Linux apps at once rather than having to check individually.


Google is not making this move because Chromebooks can't compete with Windows. The market has spoken, and there's more than enough room and profit for Chromebooks to thrive. No, Google is doing this because they want Chromebooks to be universal computing devices. Except for Apple's macOS and iOS, you'll soon be able to run any of the most popular end-user operating systems on a Chromebook.


Android apps came over to Google early on. By 2014, Google using App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) enabled ported Android applications to run on ChromeOS. ARC, however, never left beta, Google decided in 2016. Zelidrag Hornung, then Google's engineering director of Chrome & Android, explained, ARC simply wasn't good enough.


Google replaced it with a container-based approach. These containers run the Android Framework with the app and all its dependencies. This enabled Android app developers to much more easily move their apps to Chromebooks. While almost all apps available on the Google Play Store can now run on modern Chromebooks, if their interfaces have been highly optimized for smartphone screens they may not look or work their best.


As some of you know, Parallels had already enabled Chromebooks to run Windows apps via remote access to Windows desktops. It did this, as well as enabling you to run macOS apps, remote Windows and Mac computers via Parallels Access. Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) also lets you run Windows programs by using the Windows terminal server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or data center, and/or on-premise servers. All of these methods, while useful, run into the usual remote desktop and DaaS networking slowdown worries.


Important: If you use your Chromebook at work or school and you switch from Dev to Beta or Beta to Stable through a powerwash, your Chromebook won't update right away. Your software will update when your new, more stable software version matches the version that's already installed on your Chromebook. Your apps, data, and settings won't be deleted.


Important: If you use your Chromebook at work or school, you might not be able to set up or test apps with Android Debug Bridge (ADB). For more information, contact your administrator.


You'll soon be able to specify iOS/iPadOS 16.0 as the minimum operating system for line-of-business and store app deployments. This new setting option will be available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center by selecting Apps > iOS/iPadOS > iOS store app or Line-of-business app. For more information about managing apps, see Add apps to Microsoft Intune.


Users will be able to uninstall Win32 apps in the Company Portal. If a Win32 app can be uninstalled by the user, the user will be able to select Uninstall for the Win32 app in the Company Portal. For more information about Win32 apps, go to Win32 app management in Microsoft Intune.


You'll soon be able to view the size and generation for enrolled iOS/iPadOS devices as part of the Model attribute in Hardware device details. Go to Devices > All devices > select one of your listed devices and select Hardware to open its details.


You'll soon be able to view the service subscription fields on devices that have multiple SIM cards installed under the per-device Hardware section. The inventory fields that are capable of reporting multiple values to Intune are:


You'll soon be able to view a list of ServiceNow incidents associated with the user you've selected in the Intune Troubleshooting workspace. This new feature will be available under Troubleshooting + Support > select a user > ServiceNow Incidents. The list of incidents shown have a direct link back to the source incident and show key information from the incident. All incidents listed will link the "Caller" identified in the incident with the user selected for Troubleshooting.


Microsoft Intune will be ending support for devices running Windows 8.1 on October 21, 2022. Additionally, the sideloading key scenario for line-of-business apps will stop being supported since it is only applicable to Windows 8.1 devices.


The inability to backport vsock to Linux kernel 3.14 or older means that the devices with this version of the kernel won't be able to install Linux apps. Here is the list of Chromebooks that use Linux kernel 3.14 or older and can't run Linux apps:


Are you lucky enough to have a Chromebook device which is using Linux kernel 3.18 or newer? Here is the list of the devices which support Linux apps, or will support soon. You'll soon be able to run Linux apps on it. But, for those of you who were out of luck, well, the struggle continues.


If you've been hankering to play Minecraft on your Chromebook Plus, you now might be able to without a full Linux installation. At Google's I/O developer conference last month, the company said that Chromebooks will soon support Linux apps. That opens the machines up to a whole range of new tools and functions, and can make them vastly more useful in all kinds of ways. Google's own high-end Pixelbook was the first system to get Linux app support, and now it's coming to Samsung's Chromebook Plus -- albeit in unofficial fashion.


This is not a move that will benefit everyone, at least not at the outset. You'll need to use the not-completely-stable developer build of Chrome OS, and install apps through the Terminal. This was discovered by a Reddit user, and you can see the full directions here. It might get easier to add apps in the future as Google rolls out more robust support, though it's not clear which other Chromebooks will get the functionality, nor when Google will enable support on other devices.


The apps run inside a virtual machine, so you maybe won't be able to squeeze excellent performance out of Minecraft or other games. But Android Police pointed out that because the Chromebook Plus has an ARM-based processor, apps tailored for x86 processors won't work. So, Android Studio and Steam are among the apps you won't be able to run on your Chromebook Plus, though there are plenty of other Linux apps you'll be able to take advantage of on Chrome OS.


After getting the update to version 69, go to Settings and scrolldown a bit, and you'll see the option to turn on Linux apps. Figure 1shows this first step. Note that this isn't available on all Chromebooks; ifyou're using anolder one, you'll have to wait a while before this function is available. Ifyou don't see the option to turn on Linux apps, your Chromebookcurrently lacks that functionality. But, if you have a Chromebookproduced in the past two years, you probably will see the option.


Chromebooks are now a viable option for those who wish to use open-sourceapps with an added layer of security that's hard to match. Plus, the addedexposure to open-source apps is also a good thing for the Open Sourcecommunity. Here's to hoping Crostini progresses from beta to stable andbecomes easy to use for everyone.


Google Chromebooks run on Linux, but normally the Linux they run isn't particularly accessible to the user. Linux is used as a backend technology for an environment based on the open source Chromium OS, which Google then transforms into Chrome OS. The interface most users experience is a desktop that can run Chrome browser apps and the Chrome browser itself. And yet underneath all that, there's Linux to be found. If you know how, you can enable Linux on your Chromebook and turn a computer that was probably relatively cheap and basic into a serious laptop with access to hundreds of applications and all the power you need to make it an all-purpose computer.


Not really, they are not laptops created specially for Chrome OS. They are just ordinary, cheap versions that often have siblings running Windows 10 too. These days it is not economically viable to only design devices that are exclusive to either Windows or Linux. I would rather install android apps on chrome OS. Often you can dual boot with dedicated Linux distro to have best of both worlds


One of the best parts of using this method is that if you want to get rid of Linux and any installed programs, just go into the settings and disable the feature. This will immediately delete everything Linux-related and leave your Chromebook, ChromeOS apps exactly as they were before you enabled it.


We did find the flatpak route threw up a few errors here and there, so be prepared to put your Google skills to use for troubleshooting, but we definitely think that advantages of running linux apps on a Chromebook far outway the occasional detective work you may need to employ to keep things working.


From a hardware perspective, a traditional laptop form factor is more convenient than a detachable keyboard such as on the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, for example. While tablets make Android apps more convenient, the tradeoff is less productivity when in laptop mode.


Laptops with an Intel Core i3 or an AMD Ryzen 3 should be considered the minimum specification, with a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 preferred. Buy a laptop with at least 8GB of RAM inside and 256GB of storage. More RAM means more available tabs and a larger variety of applications; documents, video, and apps may require more storage space. 2ff7e9595c


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