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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
Many thanks, JJ
Grateful if you would explain why you can't load Linux on an old Chromebook, and why it needs to be a "high end" one?
I have read that Linux can be run off a memory stick (in a PC, anyway) but I would prefer things to be "self contained" for convenience.
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Like Windows PCs, the operating system updates are designed for new hardware. My chromebook is almost 3 years old, before the Linux option was created.
A memory stick will have the same problem since it requires newer hardware.
So why does Linux run on old machines but not old Chromebooks? Because of the hardware, Chromebooks are designed to run on low end hardware to keep them inexpensive. Old PCs had higher end hardware (for the time) and Linux is designed to use that hardware.