Install Linux

 

I installed CloudReady on my dynabook N40 and it runs crisply as a free version of ChromeBook and I can listen to music using bluetooth speakers. It is very comfortable, but there are rumours that CloudReady will be completely merged with ChromeOS in the near future and that crosh will also disappear.

On the other hand, I want to use the command line to do github and many other things. I've always loved the shell, command line and vi (:-), but as I get older, I'm thinking more and more that I don't mind using GUI (:-). But if there is no command line at all, for example, how do you do git with a GUI?　I get lost (laughs).

So, after a long time, I downloaded an ISO file of a Linux distribution, and using dd from CloudReady's crosh to created a boot USB. After rebooting, as usual (:-), I hit F12 repeatedly, booted from the USB and installed Linux.  That means it is farewell to CloudReady (:-), even in very short time. 

It had been a while, so I installed several distributions while doing some research. I actually tried Slackware, Arch Linux and Ubuntu. Each of them installed fine, but in conclusion, I gave up using all but Ubuntu because the wifi network on my Dynabook N40 could not work. The installation process may have been wrong, but this time I did not go into too much detail about that for now.

So, for the second time in more than ten years, I am now an Ubuntu user (:-+).