chromebrew VS crouton

With Chromebrew we just implemented a global manifest of package filelists. Everything is a flat file. You can browse ours here: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew/tree/master/manifest

TO OP: try something called https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew

Hmm

Apparently works on a vanilla Chromebook, no Crouton or Crostini, but must be in developer mode as stated here: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew

Have you tried chromebrew. Unlike crouton it seems to be in active development.

Because it's not intended that ChromeOS users should need to modify the base operating system (e.g. to install software), it doesn't come with a package manager like apt or emerge. (However, you can install one if you want using something like Chromebrew* or Crouton*.)

It's a little more than that, they then added subpixel and momentum scrolling support to Chrome that bypasses X11 and does something custom [1]. Integration problems like this one that require a bunch of coordination are harder to do in open source land.

1. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/244

I'm guessing GP means natively, not in a VM. I've been super grateful for the VM-based method, but I still prefer the native experience like that provided by Crouton[1]. With Crouton being "maintenance-only" now I share GP's hope that a similar thing will be possible and easy.

[1]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

One way to install Crouton

Go to the github of crouton they have instructions there https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

At any rate, you can try Breath, Crouton, Manjaro... those are three of the distros people have found success with. It all boils down to the specific hardware involved... which we know nothing about since you kept that to yourself.

Post in r/crouton and refer to https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton if you haven't already. However, I think it's fair to say that Crouton is now broken to the point of being effectively dead.