

However, DistroWatch is the go-to website to see the popularity of most of the major Linux distros. There’s no sure-fire way to determine the most popular Linux distro by user base as most distributions are available a free downloads from their respective communities or creators.

So, today we’re going to take a walk through installing a Linux distro that has been arguably the most popular for two years running. We have had some requests to see the actual process in action and how different operating systems perform in the VM environment. In just the past couple of weeks, I’ve installed a full version of Windows 10 Home as well as a number of different Linux distributions. All of this can be done locally on your Chromebooks internal storage and it’s actually quite easy to do. With a recent update to the Linux container on Chrome OS, a number of Chromebooks can now leverage QEMU/KVM to run secondary operating systems via a virtual machine. We’ve been doing a lot of tinkering around Chrome Unboxed as of late.
