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If you donвЂ™t take them apart and change a hardware setting to allow permanent installation, they have a distressing tendency to occasionally вЂњforgetвЂќ how to boot into Linux. I had high hopes that the EVOO might be able to fulfill that role.ДЄlthough standard Chromebooks work reasonably well as dirt-cheap Linux laptops, they need a fair amount of finagling to get there. The typical consumer, clearly, is out of luck-but what about us geeks? Personally, I use low-powered Linux laptops in many different roles-including but not limited to airplane entertainment, вЂњbackup laptopвЂќ for presentations at conferences, and small fleets of them as Wi-Fi test devices. This didnвЂ™t noticeably improve performance-and trying to run fio with swap disabled invoked the dreaded oom-killer, so I gave up and enabled it again

In fact, for a little while I turned swap off entirely, with the command swapoff -a. The launcher was also balky to render-and this time, with significantly lower memory usage than Windows, I couldnвЂ™t just blame it on swap thrashing. Actually navigating webpages wasnвЂ™t much better, with very long pauses for no apparent reason. The laptop frequently took as long as 12 seconds just to launch Firefox. To be fair, Fedora felt significantly snappier than Windows 10 had on this laptop, but that was a very, very low bar to hurdle. Under Fedora 32-selected due to its ultra-modern kernel, and lightweight Wayland display manager-the EVOO was incredibly balky and sluggish. Unfortunately, those theoretically better specs didnвЂ™t pan out in reality. We bought WalmartвЂ™s $140 laptop so you wouldnвЂ™t have to.