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Steam for Chromebooks will stop working in January 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/07/steam-chromebook-2026/

Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026
After introducing in 2022, Steam for Chromebook will stop working in early 2026. At the time, it was a big effort...

Top tip for improving openSUSE performance on somwhat-constrained systems (e.g. Ryzen 7 3700C/16GB RAM ex-Chromebook): get rid of btrfs. The constant fs housekeeping tasks grind it to a halt, and it's not the quickest to begin with. This thing absolutely FLIES with XFS. Oh no, no snapshots, guess I'd better just treat it like every previous Linux system I've ever had :P

My nephew sent me this photo and asked if this means that his Chromebook has a virus. I told him that it does not. I'm glad to see him thinking critically about it.

Sigh. Google finally killed COG. I liked having that run in its own screen so I can quickly see an overview of the system. All I want is a simple screen showing basic stats about the ChromeBook.

CachyOS is all the rage.
CachyOS is indeed very fast, even on this underpowered Chromebook.
It is also kinda broken.
The installer is so close to unusable (as in, it's a GUI, but the mouse cursor doesn't curse and the display brightness is pegged at minimum and can't be controlled) that I very nearly gave up. Installing Arch on the CLI is far faster.
Wayland is irritating, the font rendering is still fucked (text literally jiggles around on screen!) and the s…