Like is there any way to lower the system storage? This is insane.

At least a year that this regularly occurs on my Duet 3 and now even happens on the recently bought Duet 11". This is a serious UX bug that I would expect on some third party OS, not on Chrome OS.

Hi everyone,

I have bought a Lenovo Chromebook Plus 2-in-1 14ITN10 (i3 N355 with 8gb ram ddr5 and 256gb disk) for 439€ in the recent Amazon prime days. The thing is that I am not sure if I should keep it or not...

It would be my first experience with Chromebook but I have read too manu bad things so I'm in real doubt.

My use case

I'm pretty tech savvy, gamer and developer. I'm aware of the ChromeOS platform limitations. My desktop pc is pretty beast so I was looking for a cheap laptop to connect with it via RDP/Moonlight. I just need.good battery life because the compute power will be provided by the desktop, but I don't want a plastic machine.

In addition I have a Google Pixel 8 so I have read the integration between both devices will be great. And probably I will be able to try GooglebookOS (terrible OS name) so that's a plus for me.

For all this reasons this Chromebook Plus seemed to be a good option for me. I would prefer a Kompanio ultra 910 but it's impossible to find one in Spain, don't know why.

The doubts

- Is this laptop performance good enough? The battery?

- Is ChromeOS really that limitating?? Just in case I wasn't able to connect my desktop.

- Is the screen good enough?

- Will be worth to buy a Chromebook Plus just to try GooglebookOS for half the entry price?

Thank you.

He tenido la oportunidad de tener chromebook de gama altay media, así como tablet chromebook. Me encanta tener un escritorio ligero que inicia con rapidez, silencioso, sin distracciones y a la vez de disponer aplicaciones android y linux para necesidades ocasionales o específicas. Me parece genial disponer de lo mejor de tres mundos. Como usuario de tablet, me parece estupendo que disponga de salida de video y conectar un teclado y una pantalla y tener una pc de escritorio. A su vez el modo tableta cumple sin ser de lo mejor ni competir con ipad, pero cumple en poder usarse adecuadamente.He leido todos los fallos y quejas de Googlebooks y considero quese debió de invertir en chromeos y no comenzar de cero en android. Android no deja de ser un sistema pensado en el movil y sus aplicaciones lo mismo. ChromeOS es una joya que Google no supo vender.

Frequently I download a pdf to replace an existing pdf and the download does not work. The file will show 0 Bytes. Anyone have any ideas why this happens?

Purchased new in 2021. Used sparingly until about a year or two ago, and now it's become my every day at-home PC. Noticed lines and color distortion on my screen last night. Gets progressively worse over a use session. Asked Google AI, and they suggested updating ChromeOS (done) and doing a Power Reset (haven't done this yet).

Just wondering if anyone's experienced a similar issue, and if I'm likely looking at a hardware issue? If so, is it worth spending the money to get it fixed, or should I simply spring for a new CB?

Chrome on my Chromebook crashed (an ad-heavy page being the straw log that broke the camel with too many tabs (though killed)). On reopening, I get "Restore pages?" popup, click "Restore" and it crashes. It's been like this for over a month! It used to help if I turned off WiFi to prevent tabs reloading all at once. But no longer. I'm adept at using the Task Manager to kill tabs hogging memory or processor. But now Chrome base itself doesn't seem to cope with all the tabs. How do I jiggle it to shake off the offending bits, just load my tabs, give me those titles & URLs?

I've been using my older Macbook where Chrome hasn't crashed in years (yes, I once kept my Macbook & Chrome session up for over a year! I know, dumb, not updating, but point is, it did not crash once!). I don't see my Chromebook in "other devices" in Chrome history from my Macbook. I had Session Buddy, but had it disabled (dumb, I know!), enabled it on Macbook, so it's now enabled on Chromebook. But crash has already happened, so would Session Buddy be able to extract that session? I also thought about clearing the cache. But I'm afraid of losing the "Restore Pages?" popup and the stored state, if I do too much before clicking Restore. And given it's Chromebook, no way to get to Chrome session files to extract tab titles/URLs, is there?

I did post this on r/chrome, but ChromeOS is crucial in this crash and its solution, so I ask here.

This is so weird I had this customer bring it in… this is what I had to do to fix this….

10+ yr ChromeOS user. It was the optimal OS for me, until AI came along and began to offer features that will never be possible on ChromeOS. Most notably, the ability to have agentic control over the desktop and file system. Claude in Chrome is great, but depending on the task it requires the user to not use the computer while it works, among other limitations.

My 202 Acer Spin 713 is on the fritz, and I need something new. Beucase of the value I would get form having an agentic AI do work for me on my desktop and in my file system, I am considering switching to Linux. I would love Googlebooks to work, but Google is not being very clear on how things will work in this regard:

From what I can tell, the Antigravity app will allow Gemini to perform local tasks for users with access to the file system and desktop. Not just the sandboxed Linux container. Is this accurate; and is there any indication as to whether the platform would allow Anthropic & OpenAI to get this access for Claude & Codex?