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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
hmm, if it’s an x86 chromebook i’m assuming you could install linux on it like any other x86 device… not sure tbh, i’ve never done this 😅
if it’s ARM, then postmarketos may be your best bet, it’s typically used for phones but they have many laptops supported as well. maybe yours would work!
i’ve seen stuff like crouton, chrx and galliumOS which are all projects that are supposed to help run linux on chromebooks, but they’re all abandoned as of now so i wouldn’t recommend them.