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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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If you are not techy stay away from Chromebooks. mrchromebox.tech offers custom firmware which allows you to run real googlefree Linux on them, but still.
I havent found one that is worth the price. They are often unrepairable, have soldered everything and on purpose too low specs. Like 128GB of storage is rare, and that is a minimum for anything real. 16GB RAM is almost never available.