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Message: [QUOTE="neema_t, post: 12723045, member: 107035"] I'm not having much luck getting Parsec to run with hardware acceleration in Ubuntu 18.04 via a Crouton chroot on my Chromebook (now there's a sequence of words I'd never say out loud) so I'm giving up for now, I think it's something that's going to require someone more well-versed in Linux than me to have a go at. My CB is the first Rammus device so I'm sure as things mature it'll require much less effort, and between the Chrome client running in experimental web mode and the Android client it does work well enough as it is. I'm hoping Crostini gets hardware acceleration soon (it was meant to happen at the end of last year but hasn't yet) so I don't even need to mess around with Crouton to do it, I'm also just assuming the Linux version is better than both the Chrome and Android versions which it may not be, but it probably is because the Mac OS version is better than those two. Apart from that I'm happy with my decision to get a Chromebook, I've discovered it's not even remotely usable as a tablet because of the aspect ratio, tiny bezels that make it impossible to hold without touching the screen and its weight but I've flipped it over into stand mode a few times for watching YouTube while doing the dishes or for game streaming on my lap with better sound - the bottom-firing speakers get muffled when they're directly against my lap. The speakers are good, though, easily louder than the MBA's, I [I]really[/I] like the keyboard and weirdly don't hate the smaller and recessed trackpad at all, the screen is more than bright enough for my purposes too. I guess the keyboard backlight is disappointing because too much light leaks out of everything that isn't a key legend so it's actually hard to see what the key legends even are! I don't need the backlight though because I can touch type and the layout isn't weird (unlike the Roccat Sova I've got which has a column of keys to the right of the enter key, which I'm not used to yet). I love that it's passively cooled and entirely silent, I've never felt it get worryingly hot either. I'm a bit confused as to where the 100g of increased weight vs. the MBA comes from, maybe the screen glass, but as I don't intend to use it as a tablet and wouldn't have done even if it was >100g lighter that doesn't actually bother me. [/QUOTE]

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