<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">NMGLUGers, Well, still celebrating my"retirement" and I did attend the in-person on Thursday. It was a small group, but Jason and I had a chance to check out the Xubuntu on Asus Chromebook. We discovered a few, maybe significant, limitations. The screen resolution is not too high, and the top row of keys and the bottom row (no Super key) are lacking certain abilities. Notably the row of "F" keys is modified for the other OS, labels do not match the layout of a standard keyboard. And we found the trackpad would regularly quit working when we typed some combinations of keys. For now I do not know more, but I hope to acquire more data in the next few weeks. Of course this will be a slow process, due to my rate of work. Perhaps others can add to this discussion. In the meantime I am a little less enthusiastic about the capacities of the hardware and discovering the limitations of taking a web-terminal kind of device and converting it to full functionality. In a way it boils down to: What do I want to do? Will this device do all I require?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for your support and interest in free software, Ted P.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:57 AM Ted Pomeroy <<a href="mailto:ted.pome@gmail.com">ted.pome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">NMGLUGers, I think it is time for me to resign my active membership in the GLUG. Although I keep computing, I am no longer breaking new ground and not interested in being the hobbyist I once was. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Oddly though, I am still doing some things. I am writing this on Xubuntu, Gnu/Linux installed on a former student 11 inch Chromebook(tm). The conversion removed all of the former OS after borrowing a script to rewrite the boot system with SeaBios or one of the other Coreboot varieties. Instructions are found at MrChromebox dot tech or other pages on the 'net. No major glitches, no major issues. I am limited by the emmc chip on the board - 16 Gb, but it works. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Nice to have a really functional terminal and man pages and such. As well as the freedom to choose my applications and modifications. Used student C-books are cheap because the support for each hardware is only 4 years. A real waste of resources and trash producer for the landfill.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I may try to be present at this weeks meeting, I will have nothing to turn in and the recent discussions have gone beyond my level of activity, but it is fun to listen.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Be well, Thank you, Ted P.<br></div></div>
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