Integrate Arch Linux into Chrome OS

Unlock the POWER of the Chromebook with Arch Linux on Chrome OS. This integrates directly in STOCK Chrome OS and you can directly launch without even using Terminal! .
►► Digital Downloads ➜ www.cttstore.com
►► Reddit ➜ / christitustech
►► Titus Tech Talk ➜ / titustechtalk
►► Twitch ➜ / christitustech

[@nemonada3501]

That's probably the fastest Arch install I've seen yet.

[@SunIsLost]

Yes

[@markh.6687]

Trans-Warp Drive Install power there.

[@drishalballaney6590]

nah some guy installed Arch from the iso under 2 mins

[@nemonada3501]

@@drishalballaney6590 That sounds like a good watch. Using installers or just really fast?

[@17moh.oktaviazizn.75]

@@nemonada3501 just really fast through command line, search arch install speedrun on YT

[@michaelgkellygreen]

Awesome content, just what i was looking for. I've been resistant to installing anything Linux on my Chromebook but i think the time has arrived. New to you're channel recently and loving the videos. Big thanks

[@markh.6687]

"I'mma gonna let you Linux, but I put a Linux in your Linux, so you can Linux while you Linux!" -- CTT. Nice work, Chris!

[@gregc8730]

OUTSTANDING !! Your mastery of all things terminal really shines here. Thanks so much for detailing out the process. I could never have arrived at this point flogging around on my own. Just got an ASUS C536EA about a month ago. Knew this was possible - and something I'm looking forward to making usable - so this is a dream come true. Many thanks.

[@paullydca]

DANG!!!! This totally unlocks chromebooks now :) Thanks so much for the video. I followed along and now have arch running. Amazing!

[@pirate6930]

I'd love to see a side by side performance comparrision between the Arch and stock linux in Chome OS!

[@user-bc5vv1ug2g]

So glad that chromeOS can do this, it's truly exciting.

[@SunIsLost]

Yea!

[@Skroskznik]

this needs an update for more all the recent changes: the newer chromeos versions aret working with the AUR when getting the cros-container, getting the arch vm is a different site now, many errors involving, there are ERROR installations in the PKGBUILD process which is so difficult to effciently handle. The arch wiki guide is outdated and I'm confused on how to solve this. I just feel its better to update the process

[@olegyamleq7796]

Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr seen this guy do a video that didn't have all kinds of errors in it. this tutorial was just brutal.

[@danieljongepier7473]

Hey Chris, I have done this with some tinkering on the cloudready home edition. It works! Very nice guid, thanks alot!

[@mandigerm7211]

you make me love programming. Thank you for your dedication to this content and your viewers, may you be remembered forever.

[@DriscollJeff]

Chris. Awesome video. Thank you. What Chromebook are you using?

[@Benutzername0000]

the arch linux repo has changed. Can you give me the current link for it? i can't figure out where to get this link

[@MattMcGraw]

@chris... so... i followed along and it didn't work. what version of chromeos are you on, Chris? also, when i got to the arch container, it hadn't created a user for me (no dir in /home)... i don't think i missed any steps, but i'll go through it again. thanks.

[@Hyungnim23]

you doin good my dude, keep it up

[@El.Duder-ino]

Damn Chris, u r really good with Linux commands, really impressive!👍Seeing the Linux Arch virtual containerized subsystem on the Chrome OS is something special and really awesome, thank you!

[@sjvduwbdubf]

Dont think it works on ARM devices, on lxc list, it doesn't show "arch" and i cant seem to get it to start

[@akanshbharadwaj8288]

Is there any advantage to using `reflector` rather than the inbuilt `pacman-mirrors` command that pacman comes with?

[@klee9016]

Thank you for video! I'm very grateful KZbin has playback speed control as I suspect must be getting senile as I couldn't keep up with listening and watching you type the commands and I actually started getting dizzy 😵‍💫 lol! I'm still not quite understanding the need to wipe out the native version of Linux that comes with but that's because I really only had the Chromebook for the blink of an eye. I would love to be able to do this on a Windows OS laptop as well. I'm trying to follow along and I'm sure it will take some time for me to figure out what you're doing so that the light bulb goes off in my head. Thank you very much again!

[@renegomez2274]

Wonderful video! Maybe you or someone here can help me with a question, I have a Chromebook that finally got its last update (AUE). Do you think is possible to keep using it safely if I use this Archlinux installation? I mean with this I can use an up-to-date browser right? I will only use it for watching KZbin videos, Facebook, email, etc. or maybe is better if I flash the firmware and erase Chrome OS and install Archlinux in the "normal" way? Thanks for your videos! 😀

[@donhensel6300]

the link for the container no longer works

[@MoChuang343]

Is there a written guide to follow along with? I didn’t see a link in the description.

[@lesserfield_]

can you help me i got this error message when i launch "vmc start" 2:03 Error: operation `vm_start` failed: bad VM status: `VM_STATUS_FAILURE`: Failed to get image paths: termina-dlc was not installed, its state is: 0 [ERROR:src/main.rs:181] ERROR: command failed

[@MarkStrus]

Did you need to do any type of updates or change anything on the Chromebook before starting this? Everything worked until the "vmc destroy termina" which seemed to not do anything. Then I get an error with "vmc start termina". I have to manually start the linux environment by clicking the icon for the terminal. Then if I check the container, the original container is still there. My Chromebook is an HP x360 with core i3, 8gb ram, and ssd storage. Not sure if I'm missing a step or they just don't want you to change the linux distribution on this but I much prefer Arch over Debian. I can make due if Debian is my only choice but kind of bought this specifically to install Arch on it.

[@yourlocalkirby]

yoo, I just did this like a day ago, such timing!

[@matheusmelo5869]

does it have sound enabled or we would still need to add a server to have sound on linux on chrome os??

[@TheDavidf3]

So im at about the 6:30 mark, The container VM is running however, Termina keeps changing the words randomly. As in i copy paste the command and get “terqma” command not found, “termina akdjdh” not found, any idea whats going on???? I have a hp “Seltzer” 14 Chromebook on the Dev channel with a usb for chromo storage mount and an SD card for linux storage mount

[@canadianpatriot14]

Im trying to install steam using yay -S steam but its saying ...could not find all required packages.....what am i doing wrong?

[@mrdutch01]

Done this this morning and Im impressed what my ChromeBook can do. The only thing what i've found out is that my sound does not work. Any idea what this is?

[@simplegametutorials1341]

The website where you got arch Linux image is outdated, I get a whitpin error on my terminal. I don’t know how to say that word but I followed the exact steps and it did not install arch in my termina. I have an acer Chromebook.

[@olegyamleq7796]

Chris. Awesome video. Thank you. Does someone know if i can install onto the sd card that i mounted in my chromebook?

[@chrisognm]

Can you provide some info on the Lenovo device you have? Model, RAM, HD etc.?

[@johbri1783]

hello all! what recommend GB should i a lot for creating Linux container for arch Linux? probably I will just install VLC player, libre office on my Chromebook duet 5. TIA

[@youvataque8627]

Hi , can you help me please , i haven't icon on my linux app with arch and i don't understand why .thank's

[@cerc2011]

Hi Chris, Do you know which is the best android emulator for pc?

[@coachace123]

This opens up a lot of options when I buy my next laptop! Can't wait to go through this process and save $$

[@t0m5k1]

Niiice, never knew you could do this on chrome os :) Sorry my Arch Linux ocd kicked in when you allowed all users in wheel to use sudo without a password, I could nevcer do that even if I'm the only user. I set up a reflector systemd timer so each week the system produces a fresh new mirrorlist

[@robinstahlbaum9813]

hi.. great video.. this arch no grub and no efi from what dmesg shows.. trying to change the kernel. want to create a video on how this vmware loads kernel and change to say zen or whatever kernel? thanks

[@simbaclaws_youtube]

is it possible to add storage to a linux environment using an sd card? Or any other form of storage media, like a NAS or usb drive? I want to be able to expand the amount of apps that I can install on the linux environment. I have all 3 of these things, a NAS, a 512GB sdcard (preferred) and a 1tb usb disk.... Would you know of any way to increase the storage for installing apps on the linux environment? Preferably on arch....

[@nmkh4608]

When I type this command -- reflector -a 10-cus -f 5-sort rate -save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist It showed me this error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reflector", line 3, in import Reflector ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Reflector' How can I fix this issue?

[@Uthur]

Wait you have the CoG system viewer app? I can't find it anymore

[@sancobtw]

i did all of the steps but device drivers dont seem to be working or updating properly returning "Failed to write 'change' to : Permission denied", any way to fix this?

[@marcmarel9757]

not working anymore, always stuck on error

[@abwesternriding5295]

Good Video! but when i go to start linux from the terminal the terminal remains stuck on "starting the container" forever

[@warthunder1969]

Looks pretty cool. I might experiment on a side system I run cloudready on so I don't brick my chromebook.

[@theuglyguy2203]

Hi, After vsh termina, lxc list doesnt show any containers and lxc start arch returns error: not found. I am on ARM64 chromebook. Please help Chris. On Chrome OS Version 92.0.4515.162 (Official Build) (32-bit)

[@OsheaDennis]

I’m having issues with the bash part

[@hgf922]

This is what I am looking for. Thanks

[@Volnas97]

I tried like 10 times and it still doesn't work. I did it as you said, I did it like Archwiki said, either my Chromebook isn't compatible or idk. Guess I'll stay with Debian.

[@joshjohnson946]

damn i can't figure out what im doing wrong, every time i go to start the VM in the 'terminal' app, i get "checking the linux container" and when it finishes i have debian again

[@dingokidneys]

I'm pretty sure that at 2:12 Chris goes over renaming the containers to avoid Chrome OS wiping and restoring the container, which leaves you with Debian. I may not have the mechanism right but Chris talks about that problem so maybe check out his web-site to see if there's more explanation there.

[@hiiaminfi]

Even being open about trying to avoid Google where it makes sense for me... Chrome OS looks damn fine UI design wise.

[@frykauf]

I would rec checking FydeOS then. Basically recreating ChromeOS features but with ChromiumOS base.

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

(DISCLAIMER) No google play store access, does not support Linux or android software, is out of mainland China...

[@frykauf]

@@CaNTBREaKCHRiS You sure about that? Because at least back in 2020 they had the option to install Android subsystem with google play store (it just didn’t show up between apps) & can install linux (they even have a guide + script to simplify replacing debian with arch container). And yeah they are from china, but you don’t have to use their account/cloud services and it’s built on chromium OS. And even the whole thing is still open source I think. But sure, I mean some people have concerns with Deepin too.

[@naviimandiv8407]

@@frykauf but the android subsystem always crashes, slow in fydeOS and Linux subsystem is also little bit slow compared to chromeOS and also it's inconvenient.

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

@Smug Anime Girl: Wow... seriously WTF is all I can say about that. I guess my point still stands then, you're better off going with ChromeOS than FydeOS if that's really the case. 😎

[@killertruth186]

I have subscribed to this channel for being critical on all OS. But what I do like for both MacOS and Linux to have their own version of Direct Storage. Which it will be great for competition and for people to not miss out on features as well for the people to stick to their preferred OS.

[@vitacell1]

If you are talking about operating systems, Linux it is not one.

[@killertruth186]

@@vitacell1 I am. RN, I have secure boot disabled. Which it allowed me to use my Arch Linux and Windows 11.

[@vitacell1]

@@killertruth186 Coreboot is better :)

[@detroitplaya4sho]

i've tried multiple times. had it working before but now after downloading the container i get an error "ERROR vsh: [vsh.cc(150)] Failed to launch vshd for termina:arch: requested container does not exist: arch" It crashes with this error every time i try to open terminal

[@arsacode6145]

I wanted to run Ardour and use my audio interface but no matter what I do, ALSA just can't get real time permission and, as it turns out, the kernel is custom and does not support real time. So...

[@krtirtho]

I can't believe you installed Arch within 20 minutes !!!WORLD RECORD!!!

[@6500s1]

not even close to a record, lol

[@lingux_yt]

reflector gets kinda buggy from time to time. I download reflector and rsync at the same time in every Arch install

[@artkof]

Could this process work on a chromebook with an arm processor?

[@sheeshayo6474]

when i type in the command to make the vm, it gives me an error and it doesnt make it

[@CodeShortsExclusive]

My terminal is just loading after this, so close, after 10000 errors i got everything right, now my terminal is just loading, the linux one on chromebook. stuck here please help.

[@joeyatkins957]

I did it! Thank you so much!!

[@erikduffy6348]

when I do the "reflector -a 10 -c us -f 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" command it says reflector:command not found

[@Terra1149]

pacman -S reflector rsync

[@shawntoliver5163]

followed this guide, however when exiting crosh, and opening terminal -- terminal just loads, and then shuts down immediately. Not sure what i did wrong, there were a few differences in a few things

[@MrBobbyw121]

Same

[@maledict9061]

Same

[@drewfranklinaustin]

Hey is there a way to use termina or any of it's programs to passthrough hardware directly to the vm I've been trying to do this using debian through crouton and I'm running into too many issues running virt manager in a chroot environment and I'd like to use linux beta to run virt manager and boot windows off my nvme drive and of course I'd like to passthrough my gpu as well for gaming

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

🤣😂

[@hotfire7075]

Does this still work? My chromebook can’t find that link at 3:07

[@leo2k13]

yay -S neofetch did not work for me it gives me install errors. does anyone kno why?

[@bslprints9935]

I had to remove the "us" from the url in the vmc command to get it to work

[@Ethan_Simon]

Thanks!

[@feralrat2231]

Is there a download for the mirror how do I find it

[@AidanLovesMinecraft]

When I did the command at 3:30 it said command failed

[@janflasher]

crosh> vmc start termina Error: operation `vm_start` failed: bad VM status: `VM_STATUS_FAILURE`: Failed to get image paths: termina-dlc was not installed, its state is: 0 [ERROR:src/main.rs:181] ERROR: command failed what should i do? why error

[@azizcell5163]

same. there error after destroy termina when i start termina. need solution

[@divyanshsrivastava7312]

sir, is it possible to install Ubuntu 20.04 on Chrome OS and run ROS Noetic on it? or maybe 18.04 with ROS melodic. Thanks.

[@ScimitarRaccoon]

I did that back in 2014 with Ubuntu 14.04, installed it side by side using chroot I think it was, I ended up blasting a custom bios onto it and installing Debian as the main and only operating system.

[@Patricia-kk8tr]

Would a Pentium Gold 8gb Chromebook handle arch well?

[@chrishalle1982]

I have 2 Questens. First! Why should i install arch instead of using debian? Second! I have an Arm Chromebook. Is there an ARM Version of Arch?

[@gregoryh2772]

3:31 Failed to create container... problem with Server... at linuxcontainers

[@Jeremy-ul4ph]

@Leonardo De Carlo is the problem with the mirror link? I am on EU and used the same link in video but yes it says no host found , tried to copy url from official arch linux website for eu and still get some error , idk i am doing something wrong with the commands

[@budimanjojo4456]

wow I didn't know this stuff even exists, thanks!

[@ProfX8888]

Are the US Linux containers still available? I’m getting an error and can’t set it up.

[@g3t0ffmebrogaming]

Any luck?

[@ArakiSatoshi]

It keeps being named as "penguin" no matter what I do, even after a powerwash my Chromebook still creates a container with the "penguin" name by default even if I don't follow this guide. It's used to be "octopus" when I got my Chromebook. That's just a visual thing and doesn't affect anything, but is there any way I can revert the default container name back to "octopus"?

[@maledict9061]

The default container name is always penguin even if you chromebook name code is octopus.

[@Nsfwstar]

To be honest, i have all what i need with web and Android apps for edit images etc, but is always interesting see some tinkering xd

[@frykauf]

It’s cool to see that you can actually supplement that 10 % of missing apps/features in ChromeOS instead of disheartenly going back to Win/Mac/Linux.

[@MC-hammered]

anyone figure out how to pass sound, like from the browser?

[@ohjhas2007]

how to install kernel headers on chromebook and install vmware workstation?

[@g3t0ffmebrogaming]

Why doesn't the reflector command work anymore???

[@damienbutt6320]

Is this running on x86 or ARM? Could you do this on a Lenovo Chromebook Duet ARM device?

[@knowone9763]

x86. The VM containers for running x86 Linux require an x86 Chromebook. x86 Linux will not run (I do not recall the exact error message) under ChromeOS on ARM.

[@nommindymple6241]

Since Arch is involved, I can actually ask this question. The Steam Deck is supposedly based on Arch. Is it possible to install that version (with all the Steam stuff) on an actual PC? It's sort of the opposite of your comments about installing Windows on the Steam Deck.

[@hornzbiddle1189]

I might be misunderstanding your question, but just do a quick search for SteamOS. I don't know if SteamOS 3 is publicly available yet, but the old Debian-based version is.

[@ilya_mzp]

@@hornzbiddle1189 Yes, SteamOS 3 is not public yet, we'll have to wait until the deck is released. I tried the debian version, but didn't like it at all.

[@LeDragoX]

if they don't update it on their website, someone will upload an ISO, or if the person got Steam Deck on Hand, he could try cloning his disk into another.

[@yohaneschristianp]

Just download chimeraOS if you want to try

[@virusz4274]

just downloading steam from arch repo will be do the work. in steam os they will be probably having some customisation DE wise and maybe toss in a few apps to update the arch linux automatically or something like that so that people who are new dont need to maintain arch.

[@AaronSchappell10]

Do you have a writeup on this?

[@sjvduwbdubf]

does this work on arm devices?

[@TuneyDarko]

It doesn’t work for me if I do vmc destroy termina

[@RyanMcCollom]

My audio is not working in Arch linux on Chrome os. Other than that this is nothing short of just amazing. Right when I was really thinking about switching back to Windows for 11 now I have a reason to stay with Arch. I will just spin up an Azure vm if I need a Windows 11 for now.

[@leonardogeorgecarrai9476]

Hi Did you fix the audio in Arch Linux, and if how? thank you

[@ZAIDAMVs]

Love your videos, Make a video about chrome os on proxmox

[@pysab]

What if I don't want Arch and instead I want Fedora??

[@henrikfahlen5730]

You made me dare to take the step of using linux. So now I only run with linux mint. and stopped using windows. so thank you very much from Sweden

[@walkingrobin9965]

Hi so I can see arch exists after reboot of chrome os.. lxc list no network ipv4 I didn't rename arch to penguin.. how do I get new arch to get ipv4 ip.. I'm also researching..thought I'd ask

[@walkingrobin9965]

Figured it out.. great video ..thank you

[@Jeremy-ul4ph]

@@walkingrobin9965 could you share pls

[@leonardoplays5546]

can you do the same but with gentoo

[@arjunvk6183]

How to integrate chrome OS to any Linux distro

[@a9udn9u]

Thank you!

[@cryptozombie683]

how the hell did you go to root. I have no experience

[@leonardoplays5546]

how do i uninstall the arch linux container and change it back to the debian container

[@leonardoplays5546]

nvm just uninstall it

[@kanglinyao]

This video need an update. ChromeOS 103 has a new terminal and installation of archilinux and change the of the lxc to penguin will not work.

[@drinogao9174]

Sir,Do you have the new tutorial about installation of arch in ChromeOS 103?

[@jaimierodricks3]

Is it possible to install Ubuntu server instead of arch?

[@antishulk]

probably

[@dingokidneys]

At 3:00 Chris pulls the Arch container down. You should just need to replace 'archlinux/current' with 'ubuntu/focal' or whatever version of Ubuntu you want.

[@mehmetalpyel]

1:41 epic ctt moment

[@dark_mode]

Can you play steam games with proton?

[@SunIsLost]

YES! That is what proton is about!

[@antishulk]

no because no graphics acceleration in the linux vm yet afaik. if yoy try it will say could not find vulkan compatible graphics or something like that. open gl games would probably work though, but the proformance would not be as good as running linux natively afaik. if it being honest i barely understand it myself

[@culiaochicken]

I will try it when i get one

[@RobsonLuizRL]

Nice!!