I need a distro that can run on my chromebook with 4gb RAM and a 32GB EMMC and can use the weirdtreething audio script. Its been hard trying to find one because either the script dosent work or the OS takes up half my storage.
Only distros ive gotten the audio to work on is mint lmde and mint xfce, but i only have around 15GB of space left after all the updates.
arch
Hi weirdtreething i love your script i beg make it work with debian pls!!!
Also are you sure? I hear arch is complicated and im kinda new to linux
The script works on debian testing, not stable.
Do you think youd ever be able to get it working on stable?
What boardname is your Chromebook?
I have identical RAM and EMMC amounts on my Lars board, and I have 18.1 GiB free on Fedora 41 with Stellarium and a few extra desktop environments installed, though I still have audio issues that I haven’t ironed out yet.
I plan on experimenting with EndeavourOS and openSUSE Tumbleweed as well. I’m also considering using a Samsung FIT Plus as my permanent OS drive. Though, at a glance, it looks like the EMMC is faster than I thought it would be (/dev/disk/by-label/fedora below):
/dev/disk/by-label/Samsung\x20USB:
Timing buffered disk reads: 920 MB in 3.00 seconds = 306.30 MB/sec
kiddobox@fedora:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/disk/by-label/Samsung\\x20USB
/dev/disk/by-label/Samsung\x20USB:
Timing buffered disk reads: 1012 MB in 3.00 seconds = 336.90 MB/sec
kiddobox@fedora:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/disk/by-label/Samsung\\x20USB
/dev/disk/by-label/Samsung\x20USB:
Timing buffered disk reads: 1026 MB in 3.00 seconds = 341.51 MB/sec
kiddobox@fedora:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/disk/by-label/fedora
/dev/disk/by-label/fedora:
Timing buffered disk reads: 450 MB in 3.00 seconds = 149.99 MB/sec
kiddobox@fedora:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/disk/by-label/fedora
/dev/disk/by-label/fedora:
Timing buffered disk reads: 402 MB in 3.01 seconds = 133.61 MB/sec
kiddobox@fedora:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/disk/by-label/fedora
/dev/disk/by-label/fedora:
Timing buffered disk reads: 434 MB in 3.00 seconds = 144.46 MB/sec
The cheap USB upgrade still has over twice the read speed, though. I’ll test both devices from a live USB with the benchmark tool in GNOME Disks the next time I get a chance.
Good luck finding a distro and setup you like and with getting audio working!
Update i made my own custom ubuntu distro thing specifically for my chromebook since i couldnt find anything besides mint that suited all those needs well so uhhhh now im trying to figure out how to turn it into an iso to put onto my chromebook
Also, the boardname is like sasuke something, i cant recall
Once Testing works its way to becoming Stable, I imagine.
Is that sarcasm i cant tell 
Sorry im new to this stuff so i imagine half the stuff i say i sound really stupid
No not at all. Sorry if it came across that way.
Debian Testing becomes the next Debian Stable.
So Debian 13 should have all the things in place whenever they decide to release it.
Debian by nature is very slow moving.
Sasuke’s at least 4 years newer than my hardware! Once I got hardware acceleration for video playback working, I’ve been pretty pleased with performance in general. Shame we’re both stuck with eMMCs. Spending ~$22 on a USB drive that doesn’t stick out too much and handily outperforms the built-in storage isn’t an elegant solution, but you might want to consider it, too