u/FrobozzChris

Is Manjaro/Arch still possible on crostini?

I'm a long time Manjaro user and I'm also a long-time Chromebook user too. When I travel, I love having a simple, stable, fast booting and secure Linuxy laptop as my carry.

After years of using Debian as my Linux flavour (given that it's what you get by default), I got curious to see if I could run an arch-based distro as my Linux container (or not container, as I think those are going away?).

I looked at the Arch Wiki's ChromeOS devices/Crostini page for instructions and it looks like it used to be possible to create a linux environment with Arch; but it looks like a lot of things have changed and it's no longer possible.

I'd just like to confirm, is there still a way to move my Linux environment over to another distro? Is Crotini no longer a thing? Are we all containerless now?

I'm running ChromeOS version 149 on an ASUS CX54. When I invoke crosh, I do not seem to have lxc available so I think I'm containerless.

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u/FrobozzChris — 7 days ago