Solus Installation on Chromebook Acer C720P

Solus Installation on Chromebook Acer C720P: Solus felt more into gaming than other Linux flavors, with Lutris and Steam included. But, of course, that all depends on the hardware. Then, my opinion about Linux is not for a gamer still stands, duh. The installation itself took more time than some other distros installation. My screen went sleep sometimes. The cool thing is my touchpad run very smoothly without updating the driver.

Solus comes with a so-so look, but it allows us to do a lot of customization without the need of using Gnome Tweak. Which in my experience tend to make the appearance even looked worse(and I don’t know where to repeat from). One more thing I found great on Solus is that its Software Center is easy to use. It has a nice frontend and most Softwares I need are already there.So I didn’t have to do the post-installation ritual like I have to do with other Linux distribution.

I had some trouble connecting to wifi, but maybe that just happens to me and not a common issue.

If you like Solus, you might also like elementary and Pop.

So, This is How I Did Solus Installation on Chromebook Acer C720P

Before you proceed, make sure you have developer mode enabled on your Chromebook. If you haven’t done so or not sure, check the step by step tutorial below:

Follow the chrx installation guide for the detailed process, here’s the summary:

1. Make backups of Chromebooks using Chromebook Recovery Utility (just in case).
2. Turn your Chromebook into Developer Mode (Do NOT turn on debugging mode!).
3. Turn it off completely (not sleeping).
4. Press and hold the Ctrl + (right arrow above/if on the regular keyboard = F2) and press the power button to turn it on.
5. Click on ctrl + alt + t to open the terminal.
6. Will appear with the crosh command prompt, type shell then hit enter.
7. Type: sudo crossystem dev_boot_usb = 1 dev_boot_legacy = 1
8. Follow the process until it restarts to Chrome again, then connect to the internet.

Move To Solus Installation on Chromebook Process

1. Download the ISO here
2. Burn the ISO to a USB drive <— I used 32GB, but 4GB will do just fine
3. Shut your Chromebook down
4. Plug the Live USB you made in step 2
5. Turn on your Chromebook
6. Press Ctrl + L on the exclamation mark screen <— this will bring you to the boot selection screen
7. Select your Live USB from the screen
8. Follow the next step in the video

So, that’s how my Solus installation on Chromebook process. I will cover more in near future.

Solus Command Line

Solus is one of my favorite Linux distro, judging by the looks only. Earlier today, I had difficulties running command lines. The first thing I checked was my internet connection since I was going to do sudo apt-get update. Apparently my internet connection was fine and that was not the only command line that was not working.

Then I got the answer I was looking for from Gene C on Solusproject.com.

Here is the list of Solus command line I was looking for:

sudo eopkg up		Solus - Upgrade/Update
sudo eopkg ur		Solus - Update Repo(s)
sudo eopkg ln		Solus - List newest packages in repo
sudo eopkg dc		Solus - delete cache files (clean)
sudo bleachbit		Bleachbit - bb - clean
bleachbit		Bleachbit - bb - clean
eopkg history		HISTORY - upgrade-install package pkg
dmesg > dmesg.log		HISTORY - text output home
cat .bash_history		HISTORY -terminal - list commands
sudo eopkg la		Solus - List all available packages in repo
sudo eopkg lr		Solus - REPO - List repos
sudo eopkg er ?	<repo>	Solus - REPO - Enable repository
sudo eopkg dr ?	<repo>	Solus - REPO - Disable repo
sudo eopkg it ?	<pkg>	Solus - Install package
sudo eopkg ar ?	<repo>	Solus - REPO - Add a Repository
sudo eopkg hs		Solus - History of eopkg/pisi operations
sudo eopkg up -x ?	<pkg>	Solus - EXCLUDE package from Upgrade
sudo eopkg la | grep ?	<pkg type>	Solus - Search for pacakge type
sudo eopkg bl		Solus - Info on Pkg owner and release
sudo eopkg bi		Solus - Build Pisi/eopkg packages
sudo eopkg check		Solus - Verify installation
sudo eopkg clean		Solus - Clean stale locks
sudo eopkg cp		Solus - Configure pending packages
sudo eopkg dt		Solus - Creates delta packages
sudo eopkg em ?	<pkg>	Solus - Build install source packages
sudo eopkg fc ?	<pkg>	Solus - Fetch a package
sudo eopkg help		Solus - Command Help
sudo eopkg info ?	<pkg>	Solus - Display package Info.
sudo eopkg lc		Solus - List available components
sudo eopkg li		Solus - Print list of installed packages
sudo eopkg lp		Solus - List pending packages
sudo eopkg ls		Solus - List sources
sudo eopkg lu		Solus - List packages to be upgraded
sudo eopkg rbd		Solus - Rebuild database
sudo eopkg rm ?	<pkg>	Solus - remove package
sudo eopkg rr ?	<repo>	Solus - Remove repository
sudo eopkg sr ?	<pkg>	Solus - Search packages
sudo eopkg sf	<file>	Solus - Seach for a file
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub		edit grub config
sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS		set time utc
sudo grub-install /dev/sda		Move grub to SDA
sudo update-grub		Update GRUB
systemd-analyze		systemd analyze boot time - sd sysd
systemd-analyze blame		systemd analyze boot time blame - sd sysd
screenfetch		info system distro hwd sf
kill -9 -1		force log out - logout
sudo gedit  /etc/upgrade-system.conf		upgrade- system - edit - du
sudo ufw status verbose		ufw status - settings ( deny (incoming)
sudo gedit  /etc/systemd/journald.conf		edit journal settings - systemd
sudo gedit  /etc/systemd/coredump.conf		coredump systemd - edit
sudo gedit /etc/locale.nopurge		locale  purge localepurge - edit config
sudo gedit /etc/fstab		edit fstab mount partitions
sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf		edit lightdm dm
systemctl		systemd log
systemd-analyze critical-chain		systemd analyze log
systemctl --state=failed		systemd  services failed
journalctl -b		systemd journal log
sudo fc-cache -fv		Update fonts
service --status-all		list services boot chkconfig (like)
sudo gedit /etc/adjtime		time  =  local  or utc
sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf		edit xorg conf nvidia
sudo gedit /etc/gnome/defaults.list		edit default apps applications gnome
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness		check swappiess - swap
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf		set swap - swappiness (1)
gedit .config/plank/dock1/settings		plank dock config
systemctl --version		system version installed
uname -a		What kernel am I running
sudo lshw		List hardware
lspci		List all PCI devices
cat /proc/version		Kernel Version -FULL Output
inxi -r		Active Repos
inxi -h		INXI Help
lsb_release -a		Linux Release info
java -version		Check for current JAVA version
sudo update-alternatives --config java		Change JAVA version
sudo update-alternatives --config javac		Change JAVA version-c
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws		Change JAVA version-ws
system-config-printer		Config Printer
sudo ufw status		firewall Status
sudo ufw enable		Enable netfilter firewall
sudo ufw disable		Disable netfilter firewall
sudo lspci		attached PCI devices
glxgears		Open GL Test
history		Command History
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme --list		Plymouth Themes - LIST
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme ?	<Name>	Plymouth Themes - CHANGE Theme
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub		grub kernel parameters (quiet splash for Plymouth)
sudo dracut -f		plymouth rebuild kernel
sudo update-grub		plymouth
history > output		Saves Terminal Commands to /home/output
aplay -l		List all soundcards and digital audio devices
df -h		File system disk space usage
free -m		Show RAM usage
ps aux | grep ?	<search>	Search active processes for search string
iwconfig		Display wireless network information
ifconfig -a		Displays the status of the currently active interfaces
lsb_release -a		What version of Ubuntu do I have?
cat ?	path	Read File & Print to Standard Output
ls ?	path	List Folders Contents
ls -lSr ?	path	Show files by size, biggest last
chmod ? ?	file	Change access permissions, change mode
chown ? ?	owner	group, file	Change the owner and/or group of each given file
dmesg		Print kernel & driver messages
history | grep -i ?	command	search history for a command
locate ?	file	Find files (updatedb to update DB)
sudo updatedb		update the database for locate
which ?	command	Show full path name of command
gpg -c ?	file	Encypt a file
gpg ?	file.gpg	Decrypt a file
tar xvf ?	file	decompress/extract .tar
tar xvzf ?	file	decompress/extract tar.gz
tar xjvf ?	file	decompress/extract a  tar.bz2
top		display Linux tasks
netstat		Print network connections and interface statistics
sudo fdisk -l ?	(/dev/sdx)	List partition tables for specified devices
sudo ufw allow ?	port	Open a port in netfilter firewall
sudo ufw deny ?	port	Close a port in netfilter firewall
cat ? ? | sort | uniq > ?	file1, file2	combine, sort and remove duplicates from 2 files
apropos ?	pkg	search the manual page names and descriptions
ip addr		Display info about active network interfaces
ip route		Display currently active routing table
find . -type d		List all directories under current directory
find . -size +?	File size	List all files under current directory over given size
find . -mtime 0		List all files under current directory modified in last 24 hours
find . -newer ?	filename	List all files under current directory newer than given file
find . ! -newer ?	filename	List all files under current directory older than given file
find . -perm -2 ! -type l		List all world-writeable files and directories under current directory
mount		List all mounted filesysystems
sudo umount ?	Device	Un-mount the filesystem from the given device or mount point
sudo mount -av		Mount all automatically mounted filesystems (listed in /etc/fstab)
sudo mount ? ?	Device	Mount given device at given mount point
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda		List partition table of first hard drive /dev/sda
du -sh .		Display total size of all files and directories under current directory
ls -ltr		List files, most recently modified last
ls -lAd .[^.]*		List all files and directories starting with a dot (all hidden files and directories)
sudo lsof -c ?	command	List files opened by processes beginning with given command name
sudo lsof +D ?	directory	List open files under given directory
sudo lsof -i		List open (Internet) network sockets
sudo lsof -N		List open NFS files
sudo lsof -U		List open Unix domain files (Unix sockets)
gzip -9 ?	Filename	Compress given file using gzip, adding a .gz suffix to its name
bzip2 -9 ?	Filename	Compress given file using bzip2b, adding a .bz2 suffix to its name
cd $OLDPWD		Change directory to previously used directory
pushd ?	directory	Change to given directory, remembering current directory on stack
popd		Change to topmost directory on stack created by pushd
pwd		List current directory
cd		Change to home directory
date		Display local date and time in local display format
date -R		Display local date and time in RFC2822 format
date -u		Display UTC time in local display format
date -u +%s		Display UTC time in number of seconds past the epoch
ntpq -p		List NTP time sources and their offsets
smbstatus		List current status of local SAMBA server
smbclient -L \? -N	Hostname	List shares and related information about SMB server on given host
testparm -s		Test and display current SAMBA configuration
jobs		List current jobs
suspend		Suspend the currently running shell
md5sum ?	filename	Display MD5 checksum of given file(s)
sha1sum ?	filename	Display SHA-1 checksum of given file(s)
gpg --list-keys		Display GnuPG keys
gpg --clearsign ?	filename	Create a clearsigned copy of given filename with a .asc suffix
gpg -d ?	filename	Decrypt and display given file
gpg -c ?	filename	Encrypt given file using symetric cipher and prompt for passphrase, result in filename.gpg
top		Interactively display running processes (q to quit)
top -n1		Display a snapshot of currently running processes
htop		Display configurable interactive process viewer (q to quit)
iostat 5		Display information about io activity every 5 seconds (Ctrl-C to quit)
sudo jnettop -i eth0		Display information about network traffic (q to quit)
uptime		Display how long system has been running and current load averages
sudo gedit ?	filename	Edit filename with root priviledges
groups ?	<usr>	groups which X belong
youtube-dl ?	<URL>	youtube download - you tube
cmatrix -h		cmatrix help
cmatrix -s		cmatrix screensaver mode

The next thing I do is registering to the forum to thank the man!

Ubuntu Studio For First Time User

I’ve been using Ubuntu Studio since I decided to run Ubuntu along-side my MacOSX and Chrome OS (yes, that’s possible). Kinda late actually since everyone else in the world has tested Ubuntu at least once in their life. So, I guess I’m not too late to try this. Or may I say that I’m actually just at the right time to test a Linux myself? The Linux my friends use looked crappy and ugly. Sounds harsh, but you know this is true.

 

No matter how good you are in programming or you can even boil an egg with a command line… when I say ugly here, I mean by the look only.

 

 

 

After the first install, I am starting to fall in love with Linux and started my path of searching a better (looking) Linux since then:

These are the list of Linux distros I’ve tried, it’s ordered from the one I favor the most first:

1. Ubuntu 17.10
2. Elementary OS
3. Pop OS
4. Solus
5. Zorin
6. Deepin
7. Nitrux
8. Freespire

I have also tried other flavors, you can find them using the search bar somewhere on this web. The first Linux I tried is Gallium before I walked my way installing Linux on my Chromebook using Crouton. No details will be covered here except for Ubuntu Studio, you can check the links on the list above to see more about the Linux version you want to know.

What Ubuntu Studio Offers

Ubuntu Studio is claimed to offer better multimedia production and experience. Started by changing its default theme including sounds. Optimized photo and video editing software, such as Gimp for photo editing and Pitivi for video editing. I haven’t tried any music editing software until now.

Ubuntu looks good too, just like it’s previous version (16) which is running alongside my Chrome OS right now. It’s not the best looking, but everything measured and placed just fine.

My Conclusion

So, if you are a first time Linux user like me, I’m suggesting to start with Ubuntu 17.10 or Elementary OS and Zorin OS for Mac user and Solus for Windows user. Again, for the sake of similar look only.

 

Solus First Looks

You might already guess from Solus first looks that it is one of (too) many Linux “distribution” out there. Which is quite a kill joy since many reviews claim that Solus is a “built from group-up” distro. Here is how it looks after a few tweaks…

 

It doesn’t run as smooth as other Linux distros I’ve tried in the same Chromebook that I have. I believed that I chose the minimum package. That’s judging by how many apps it came pre-installed with.

Yes, the video was not accelerated because I uploaded the video directly from the screenshot. And I was being lazy yesterday. >;)

If you have been with me for a while, you might already know that nothing is techie in this website. That’s since I’m contributing this web for end-users such as myself. So, if you’re searching for technical stuff, there are tons of web for it, like the flavor’s official web or even Quora. You can read more about me in the About“ page I haven’t made yet. 😀

My Conclusion After Solus First Looks

I will still keep Solus on my desktop because I love how it looks and somehow it’s attracting me to explore more. It might be my 3rd favorite Linux flavor after elementaryOS and Pop! since both are also have great look but run smoother than Solus.

Or was I hoping too much when I downloaded it yesterday?