issue160:critique1
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- | Back in 2014, I bought an Asus C300, Intel Celeron N2840 2 cores 2.16GHz, 4GB Ram, 32GB internal storage, Bay Trail QUAWKS architecture, | + | ===== 1 ===== |
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+ | **Back in 2014, I bought an Asus C300, Intel Celeron N2840 2 cores 2.16GHz, 4GB Ram, 32GB internal storage, Bay Trail QUAWKS architecture, | ||
After some initial enthusiasm, mainly due to the lightness and the very long battery life, I left it almost unused: even if I added to it some Linux magics by setting up Crouton, actually it was a web browsing system. | After some initial enthusiasm, mainly due to the lightness and the very long battery life, I left it almost unused: even if I added to it some Linux magics by setting up Crouton, actually it was a web browsing system. | ||
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I decided to eliminate ChromeOS and to install a new operating system, therefore, in order to enable EFI booting and to make the most of the hardware, I removed the write protection screw and I flashed a new firmware by MrChromebox firmware utility script (https:// | I decided to eliminate ChromeOS and to install a new operating system, therefore, in order to enable EFI booting and to make the most of the hardware, I removed the write protection screw and I flashed a new firmware by MrChromebox firmware utility script (https:// | ||
- | Afterwards, I tested a number of mainstream distros; however, each and every distro I tested had the very same main issue: internal sound card not working. | + | Afterwards, I tested a number of mainstream distros; however, each and every distro I tested had the very same main issue: internal sound card not working.** |
- | Eventually a web search drew my attention to GalliumOS, the distro specifically dedicated to Chromebooks and Chromebox. | + | En 2014, j'ai acheté un Asus C300, avec un processeur Intel Celeron N2840 à 2 cœurs et à 2,16 GHz, 4 Go de RAM, 32 Go de stockage interne, l' |
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+ | Après un peu d’enthousiasme à l' | ||
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+ | Il y a quelques mois, le support de ChromeOS pour ce modèle a atteint sa fin de vie et le moment était venu de rafraîchir cette petite machine avec un nouveau système d' | ||
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+ | J'ai décidé d' | ||
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+ | Par la suite, j'ai testé de nombreuses distrib. de premier plan ; toutefois, chaque distrib. que j'ai testée, sans exception, avait le même problème principal : la carte son interne ne fonctionnait pas. | ||
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+ | **Eventually a web search drew my attention to GalliumOS, the distro specifically dedicated to Chromebooks and Chromebox. | ||
GalliumOS 3.1 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 and it is offering the Xfce desktop environment, | GalliumOS 3.1 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 and it is offering the Xfce desktop environment, | ||
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On the official website (https:// | On the official website (https:// | ||
- | As planned, I went with the full ISO installation. | + | As planned, I went with the full ISO installation.** |
- | The installer, Ubiquity, is the same as Ubuntu 18.04 except for the branding; it can be started from the live environment. | + | Finalement, une recherche sur le Web m'a aiguillé vers GalliumOS, la distrib. dédiée précisément aux Chromebooks et Chromeboxes. |
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+ | GalliumOS 3.1 est basée sur Ubuntu 18.04 et propose l' | ||
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+ | J'ai testé l'ISO de Bay Trail qui est spécifiquement pour GalliumOS et tout fonctionnait à peu près dans le système live, même si le volume de la carte son interne était très bas à la fois sur le casque et sur les haut-parleurs. | ||
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+ | Sur le site Web officiel (https:// | ||
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+ | Comme prévu, j'ai choisi l' | ||
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+ | **The installer, Ubiquity, is the same as Ubuntu 18.04 except for the branding; it can be started from the live environment. | ||
After a full update of the new system, and a reboot, GalliumOS was using around 395MB, around 0.5% of my small CPU, and about 5GB of internal storage; after installing the few apps I needed it was using about 6GB out of the 32GB available on the internal storage. | After a full update of the new system, and a reboot, GalliumOS was using around 395MB, around 0.5% of my small CPU, and about 5GB of internal storage; after installing the few apps I needed it was using about 6GB out of the 32GB available on the internal storage. | ||
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It was possible to choose a keyboard layout that enabled F keys on the first keys row, which hosts volume, brightness, screens, etc. keys, and a second function activated by the search key in my case (overlay key). | It was possible to choose a keyboard layout that enabled F keys on the first keys row, which hosts volume, brightness, screens, etc. keys, and a second function activated by the search key in my case (overlay key). | ||
- | The touchpad is working smoothly, right-click is mapped as two fingers tap. Both keyboard mapping and touchpad configuration are precious features added by the GalliumOS team. | + | The touchpad is working smoothly, right-click is mapped as two fingers tap. Both keyboard mapping and touchpad configuration are precious features added by the GalliumOS team.** |
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- | There are a few specific GalliumOS themes, including icons and windows decorations, | + | Après une mise à jour du nouveau système et un redémarrage, |
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+ | Il était possible de choisir une disposition du clavier qui activait les touches F sur la première rangée de touches, qui contrôlent le volume, la luminosité, | ||
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+ | Le pavé tactile fonctionne avec fluidité, le clic droit est mappé comme on tape avec deux doigts. Les deux, le mappage du clavier et la configuration du pavé tactile, sont des fonctionnalités précieuses ajoutées par l' | ||
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+ | **There are a few specific GalliumOS themes, including icons and windows decorations, | ||
There’s a very limited number of preinstalled applications out of the box, keeping the system lean; as an example there are neither office applications nor games preinstalled. | There’s a very limited number of preinstalled applications out of the box, keeping the system lean; as an example there are neither office applications nor games preinstalled. | ||
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MenuLibre is pre-installed in order to enable menu customization, | MenuLibre is pre-installed in order to enable menu customization, | ||
- | Two media players are available, Audacious for audio files and Mpv for videos. | + | Two media players are available, Audacious for audio files and Mpv for videos.** |
- | The installed browser is Chromium, and the usual good Xfce tools are to be found: Whiskers menu, Thunar file manager, Catfish for file searching, Xfce Terminal emulator and the Xfce Settings manager; inside it is the last one, the panel manager, offering different pre-organized layout with one or two panels. | + | Il y a quelques thèmes spécifiques à GalliumOS, y compris des icônes et la décoration des fenêtres, et le compositeur Compton tourne sous le capot pour donner une interface utilisateur agréable et sans déchirure. J'ai ajusté les paramètres de Compton dans son fichier de configuration afin d' |
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+ | Le nombre d' | ||
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+ | Il y a deux gestionnaires de paquets en interface graphique : Synaptic, qui est bien connu, et AppGrid, une boutique visuelle de logiciels où les diverses applications sont présentées dans un grid (ou grille), comme le nom le suggère. J'ai l' | ||
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+ | MenuLibre est pré-installé afin d' | ||
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+ | Deux lecteurs de média sont disponibles, | ||
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+ | **The installed browser is Chromium, and the usual good Xfce tools are to be found: Whiskers menu, Thunar file manager, Catfish for file searching, Xfce Terminal emulator and the Xfce Settings manager; inside it is the last one, the panel manager, offering different pre-organized layout with one or two panels. | ||
Out of the box, GalliumOS shows a lean desktop layout with a bottom bar menu and no icons on the desktop. The collection of pre-installed software is essential, I added neofetch and htop (CLI utilities), Gimp (image editor), qbittorrent (torrent client), Olive (video editor), LibreOffice (office suite), Joplin (note taking tool), and Chrome (web browser) to complete it. Oracle Virtualbox, which I installed and used for Android emulation (see below), is working, of course it is suffering from the limited hardware performance. Snap packages are working, however they are significantly slower, especially when starting up, than the installed packages are. | Out of the box, GalliumOS shows a lean desktop layout with a bottom bar menu and no icons on the desktop. The collection of pre-installed software is essential, I added neofetch and htop (CLI utilities), Gimp (image editor), qbittorrent (torrent client), Olive (video editor), LibreOffice (office suite), Joplin (note taking tool), and Chrome (web browser) to complete it. Oracle Virtualbox, which I installed and used for Android emulation (see below), is working, of course it is suffering from the limited hardware performance. Snap packages are working, however they are significantly slower, especially when starting up, than the installed packages are. | ||
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I’m definitely not a game player, and we cannot expect high performance from a computer like this, however I tested Super Tux Kart which runs well. | I’m definitely not a game player, and we cannot expect high performance from a computer like this, however I tested Super Tux Kart which runs well. | ||
- | The project, including bug tracking, is hosted on Github and there’s a friendly community on the Reddit channel, r/ | + | The project, including bug tracking, is hosted on Github and there’s a friendly community on the Reddit channel, r/ |
- | Till now, after two weeks of use, I had some issues with the internal sound card and I wasn’t able to use my smartphone in usb tethering mode. Expanding a bit on the sound card issues, out of the box the headset mic was not working and the volume was poor on internal sound card; I fixed the two of them by editing the configuration file (HiFi.conf) of my card; furthermore GalliumOS comes with a nice pulse audio interface panel applet, named pastray, which turned out to be the reason for crackling or suddenly muted sound; I replaced it with the standard Xfce volume applet and the issue disappeared. | + | Chromium est le navigateur installé et les bons outils habituels de Xfce s'y trouvent aussi : le menu Whiskers, le gestionnaire de fichiers Thunar, Catfish pour la recherche de fichiers, l' |
- | I tried to install Android emulators | + | Dès l' |
- | Maybe other distributions are more polished than GalliumOS is, however the overall experience is very good – with fast boot, responsiveness, | + | Je suis vraiment pas joueur et nous ne pouvons pas nous attendre à voir de hautes performances d'un ordinateur comme celui-ci. J'ai cependant testé Super Tux Kart, qui fonctionne bien. |
+ | Le projet, y compris le traçage de bug, est sur Github et il y a une communauté amicale sur le canal Reddit, r/ | ||
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+ | **Till now, after two weeks of use, I had some issues with the internal sound card and I wasn’t able to use my smartphone in usb tethering mode. Expanding a bit on the sound card issues, out of the box the headset mic was not working and the volume was poor on internal sound card; I fixed the two of them by editing the configuration file (HiFi.conf) of my card; furthermore GalliumOS comes with a nice pulse audio interface panel applet, named pastray, which turned out to be the reason for crackling or suddenly muted sound; I replaced it with the standard Xfce volume applet and the issue disappeared. | ||
+ | I tried to install Android emulators (Anbox, Genymotion and AndroidX86) with the aim of running Android apps, however my hardware is too weak to run them decently – to be honest, I did not have Android apps support under ChromeOS, and I do not need them. | ||
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+ | Maybe other distributions are more polished than GalliumOS is, however the overall experience is very good – with fast boot, responsiveness, | ||
Pros: | Pros: | ||
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• specific to my hardware, issues on internal sound card out of the box. | • specific to my hardware, issues on internal sound card out of the box. | ||
- | • it runs a GalliumOS kernel, apparently not connected with the Ubuntu 18.04 kernel maintenance system. | + | • it runs a GalliumOS kernel, apparently not connected with the Ubuntu 18.04 kernel maintenance system.** |
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+ | Jusqu' | ||
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+ | J'ai essayé d' | ||
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+ | Il se peut que d' | ||
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+ | Avantages : | ||
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+ | ••la distrib. est faite sur mesure pour le Chromebooks et Chromeboxes, | ||
+ | ••l' | ||
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+ | ••très bonne prise en charge du matériel comparée à d' | ||
+ | ••une large collection de logiciels. | ||
+ | Inconvénients : | ||
+ | ••des problèmes dès l' | ||
+ | ••elle utilise un noyau GalliumOS, qui, apparemment, |
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