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Lol, thanks for the objective answer. Yes, I am one of those that doesn't compromise. I want a fully functional system, not something done half- way that needs baby sitting all the damn time.
I kind of had my hopes high after applying an update and the battery indicator showed battery life on full charge almost as long as when booted into Windows, but that lasted till the first reboot. It's back to > 3hrs on full charge.
On the other hand, and not to be completely biased against CentOS, sound is SUPERIOR when booted in CentOS. Two- finger scrolling works better than in Windows. I can finally bookmark into my PDF's that were impossible to bookmark while in Windows. And so on...
To me you've made huge compromises and do not have a fully functional system.
If I understand correctly, you can only install Ubuntu on a Chromebook. You can install any distro you want on a system76 machine, although it may void the warranty, IDK.
If you can't, I've had good luck with the recent Dells with AMD chipsets (although Intel will probably work just as well). Had Manjaro running on one at Walmart...worked great! (Did have issues with the Radeon driver and the R7 graphics, but open source drivers worked like a charm.)
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