Having replaced the Mac OS on my Mac Book with OS Chrome Flex and Windows 10 on my granddaughter's HP Pavilion x360 with Ubuntu 20.04, the consequences are now being felt but it's OK, I'm retired and have plenty of time to deal with these problems. For a working person, who needs his or her laptop to be fully functional so as to maintain productivity, I wouldn't recommend my course of action.
On Ubuntu, I decided to install Calibre that I use to organise my collection of ebooks. However, once installed it wouldn't launch. Apparently, there are problems getting Calibre to run on the latest version of Ubuntu.
To add to my frustrations, I wrote in my Astrology blog about a similar problem:
... the Astrolog website links to openastro.org that has an Ubuntu repository that I'm keen to test out. Figure 1 shows a screenshot.
Figure 1Unfortunately, I get the following error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openastro.org : Depends : imagemagick
E: unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Given that Ubuntu is a far more mature OS than the beta Chrome OS Flex, these failures are disappointing.
Meanwhile the problems with the latter OS are many. The webcam doesn't work on my Mac Book and the touchpad is all but useless. I had to resort to using a mouse again, a practice that I abandoned over a decade ago. Fortunately the mouse works fine unless I connect an external monitor in which case the mouse becomes unstable.
While I seem to have successfully installed the Linux development environment in Chrome OS Flex, I get the following error message when opening the terminal:
Starting the virtual machine Error starting penguin container: 5
Launching vmshell failed: Error starting crostini for terminal: 5
This of course means that no installations of Linux applications are possible. None of these things are game changers but there's also the temptation to go out and buy the M2 Mac Book Air when it comes out later this year and have all these frustrations disappear.
On the positive side, it's interesting with Chrome OS Flex to be actively involved in the ongoing development and testing of the operating system.
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