I got a $40 used chromebook (this model), installed arch + xfce and had a great experience using it as a travel laptop. Some things that have worked well on it:
steam
portal 1
half life 1 and 2
celeste
minecraft with optimization mods (60 fps!)
trackmania nations forever (only on the smaller maps - it was running through proton so it was slow)
blender (even with editing fairly complex models actually, but rendering outside of workbench was slow)
freecad
musescore
its kinda fallen apart now, idk if its the os or the hardware, probably the os but it fails to boot 3/4 of the time and the headphone jack doesn’t really work, imma try to reinstall soon
I’m currently ordering a used Chromebook to try to install Tiny11 on it. If it doesn’t work, I’m only out fifty dollars plus shipping.
I got a $40 used chromebook (this model), installed arch + xfce and had a great experience using it as a travel laptop. Some things that have worked well on it:
its kinda fallen apart now, idk if its the os or the hardware, probably the os but it fails to boot 3/4 of the time and the headphone jack doesn’t really work, imma try to reinstall soon