chromebrew VS brunch

Compare chromebrew vs brunch and see what are their differences.

brunch

Boot ChromeOS on x86_64 PC - supports Intel CPU/GPU from 6th Gen (Skylake) or AMD Ryzen (by sebanc)
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chromebrew brunch
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2,215 3,416
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9.9 5.6
2 days ago 18 days ago
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chromebrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromebrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.

brunch

Posts with mentions or reviews of brunch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-13.
  • 13 May 2023 - Weekend Chat Thread
    2 projects | /r/indonesia | 13 May 2023
  • Chromebooks Are Trash (Literally)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023
    Eh, my Chromebook makes an excellent VT220, and it won’t stop doing that well unless I drop it quite a few times.

    I bought a 2-in-1 Chromebook for $65. It’s got 4 GB of RAM, a 32 GB eMMC, and a dual-core Pentium CPU, but when it only needs to run one copy of the Chromium engine with a couple handfuls of open tabs + some simple Linux utilities it’s absolutely perfect.

    I don’t intend to try and use “real” Linux (and especially not Windows) on this thing any time soon, but it gets official support and updates until 2027.

    And in case I do decide to convert it away from being a Chromebook, it came with a fully-featured, UEFI-capable copy of Coreboot installed. You have to put it into Developer Mode (which erases your entire user partition to do), but then I can dual-boot with a microSD or USB drive, or I can install Linux (or even Windows, supposedly) on the local 32 GB eMMC.

    If I do repurpose it, I can also flash the firmware with one that is more capable when it comes to Windows drivers, but doesn’t support dual-booting without something like Brunch (https://github.com/sebanc/brunch)

  • How to dual boot windows and chromeos?
    3 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 27 Mar 2023
    This is not possible. ChromeOS uses a different partition theme and a diffrent partition system. You can use an installation media to boot into flex. And for the actual chromeOS you can see the branch framework here.
    3 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 27 Mar 2023
    you can use the brunch project. it has android app support if you are interested. i would not recommend using fyde os (it has android but i don't know about privacy because it is chinese). openfyde does not have android but it is easy enough to install.
  • Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2023
    Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering if alternatives aren't safer. Does anyone have any experience with Brunch Framework https://github.com/sebanc/brunch and its compatibility with actual chromebooks? Context: I own a Samsung Chromebook Pro (codename Caroline), which goes out of support in June...
  • Brunch's author suggest we could use his linuxloop to dualboot chromeos flex normally
    2 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 19 Mar 2023
  • Install ChromeOS on old laptop without using ChromeOS Flex?
    2 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 13 Dec 2022
    Brunch is a cool project that should be able to fit your needs. It’s possible that your Android apps might stop working though, not sure if that bug has been fixed. Pretty sure it has.
    2 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 13 Dec 2022
    Well you have to do a little bypass. Brunch framework is the solution if you are willing to have android support but this has many bugs in. Like have an error audit: audit type=1400 audit(..some numbers..) avc: Denied. What is making me so slow. Bypass is not recommended for end users. You can have a chromium os and Brunch flamework is the solution if you are willing to have android support but this has many bugs in. Like have an error audit: audit type=1400 audit(..some numbers..) avc: Denied. What is making me so slow. Bypass is not recommended for end users. You can have a chromium os and install Gapps manually.
  • Best chrome os flex alternative
    2 projects | /r/ChromeOSFlex | 5 Dec 2022
    I have never had good luck with FydeOS, but Brunch always worked well for me.
  • Patching x86 Android apps to run on x86 Linux?
    4 projects | /r/REGames | 28 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chromebrew and brunch you can also consider the following projects:

chromefy - Project Croissant: Install Chrome OS on any Computer - Transforming Chromium to Chrome

brunch-toolkit - Stable release channel for the Brunch Toolkit

crouton - Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

ChromeOS-Linux - Builds of linux-chromeos with codecs and build optimizations.

brunch-unstable - Brunch Continuous Integration repository (Please send your pull requests here)

chromeos-apk - ☢️ Run Android Apps in Chrome OS OR Chrome in OS X, Linux and Windows.

winesapOS - winesapOS - Game with Linux anywhere, no installation required!

galliumos-distro - Docs, issues, and artwork sources for GalliumOS

brcr-update - Script to update Chrome OS installed using the brunch framework

ThoriumOS - ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs, Widevine, Kernel 5.15, Linux firmware/modules support, Nouveau, Intel microcode, and extra packages.

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)