I bought an old HP chromebook cheap on ebay that came with Zorin OS installed. It isn’t much, but just about manages to do what I need. The trouble is, Zorin seems kind of bloated and the Chromebook hasn’t got much memory. I don’t even have enough space to install updates.
I’m comfortable with running a pared-down OS that might be a better fit for a tired old Chromebook. What might work better than Zorin?
Mine is painful for storage. The eMMC is the most painful part. I can deal with low memory, I can deal with the cpu, but read and writes are painfully slow.
I am using fedora cosmic atomic and it works better than most.
Look up how to tweak reads and writes for eMMC if you have it, you can help speed it up.
Edit: wrong place, sorry.
I wonder if reading from the ports is any faster?
Yes. A lot. Using the usb C port all operations are about 4 to 8 times faster per Kdiskmark.
Unfortunately, carrying around the os attached to the usb is kind of a pain.