While I think it might take me 5 to 10 seconds longer (than CubLinux) to boot and launch into a browser … after that everything is finely polished and super quick. It took some experimentation, but I was even able to figure out CubLinux’s Control Panel grub editor and get the boot menu to list both options by name and load both with their normal quiet splash screen. So I backed up my CubLinux home directory, and installed CloudReady (wiping the hard drive), and then reinstalled CubLinux as a dual boot.
#Neverware chrome os install#
As of CloudReady version 47, the only way to dual boot with Linux is to install CloudReady first, and then Linux afterwards. Plus, the Neverware vendor bundles more frequent releases of Chromium OS into less frequent (but still timely) and more thoroughly-tested (less buggy) automatic updates for CloudReady.
#Neverware chrome os drivers#
CloudReady is basically Chrome OS, but with added drivers to accommodate older, non-Chromebook hardware. All of these issues were minor, but together they made me want to at least try CloudReady for a comparison.ĬloudReady is a build of Google's open source version of Chromium OS (which Google adds on to for true Chromebooks to make their proprietary Chrome OS). Also, with a lot of tabs open, sometimes Chrome would get bogged down. Also the desktop interface seems to provide less feedback and is generally less polished than Windows or Mac OS. While I was able to fix this with some research (their forum is very helpful) and command line configuration tweaks … this type of time eater has always seemed to come up during my experiments with Linux over the years. However, initially CubLinux on my laptop suffered from frequent WiFi disconnections (every 5 to 20 minutes) when on my home network. I consider Cub to be a very good Linux distro, sufficiently polished (coming from a predominantly Windows user's perspective), and much faster than Windows was on the same machine. It’s based on the lightweight Lubuntu (official Ubuntu Linux variant) and aims to mimic the Chromium OS experience and yet remain flexible and easily expandable through the free Open Source apps downloaded from the included Cub (Lubuntu) Software Center. And, ideally I was also looking for a solution for my computerly-challenged retired mother. I also needed a good remote desktop solution for me to access my PC at work. I wanted something simple and polished that just worked and breathed new life into my existing hardware.
#Neverware chrome os how to#
While I am in a technical career, I do not specialize in servers or hardware, and I wasn't especially interested in learning a new OS and frequently researching how to best do or fix things. So, I backed everything up to a thumbdrive and did many hours of research and experimentation. I have a 4-year old Asus K53E laptop (frugal at the time of purchase) that was taking 5+ minutes to boot into Windows 7 and load an initial webpage, and in general was becoming too often unbearably slow under Windows.