The Linux Section
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Prepare by downloading the Ubuntu flavour of choice from the official Ubuntu website. Make a bootable Ubuntu USB with Rufus following this tutorial. Enabling Developer Mode Entering Developer Mode requires you to first boot into Recovery Mode. For Chromebooks, this means pressing [ESC+Refresh+Power]; On Chromeboxes, there is usually a physical recovery button (often a small hole above the SD card reader) which must be depressed when powering on. Once at the recovery screen, press [CTRL+D] to enable developer mode, then confirm when prompted. As a security measure, transitioning to/from Developer Mode will wipe out all ChromeOS user data, essentially powerwashing (resettin…
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So, you have just installed Linux and run all the updates including the graphics drivers. Did you know that the Nvidia drivers you are using might not be the latest ones supported? OK, here's a tip for you. Open the Linux start menu and search for Software Sources and open it. Go to the tab called PPAs Click on add Add <code>ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa</code> and hit OK Find Driver Manager in the start menu and open it There should now be updated drivers. Good luck. Thanks to Mutahar for the tips.
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Popular Distros Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries, most of which are provided by third parties to create a complete operating system, designed as a clone of Unix and released under the copyleft GPL license. Thousands of Linux distributions exist, many based directly or indirectly on other distributions; popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu, while commercial di…
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