I have an Asus C201P chromebook with a Rockchip3288 SOC with Mali T7640 graphics.
I was hoiping to run linux on in for lightweight school use since it's so cheap but also fairly well built.
I installed archlinux arm on it but I could not get graphics drivers working properly.
Running startx would always crash and using a dm would sometimes get a desktop to load but absurdly slowly so it's probably some kind of software rendering fallback or something I'm guessing. I've seen a lot of people with similar issues online but also a lot of claims of success so I don't know what I'm missing. Theres even drivers for the chip in the repos for alarm.
Anyone here tried the same? Or alternatively anyone know of a chromebook or similarly small low-power device with a good battery and sleek design that will run linux well enough to browse the web and do really light programming?