Hi all. First time on here. I have been using my iMac to run light burn. This involved running a cable across office at waist height. Went out and bought a laptop. Realised that chromebook wont run light burn nor any other laser app. I have read that it can be run using linux softwear? It involves changing a lot of operating stuff and Im not that tech advanced. Suggestions please.
Hi David,
There is an app for Chrome OS called Parallels Desktop for ChromeOS that will let you run an ARM version of windows as a VM. I have used it on a Mac and it works really well.
They have a free trial version to try.
Which Chromebook model is this?
If it’s running an x64 processor then it’s likely you can use the Linux mode on the machine to run LightBurn. There are a few on this site doing so. If it’s an ARM Chromebook then better to think of it as not being available.
Lightburn runs beautifully on Chromebooks with Intel I3/I5 CPUs and 4G RAM or more. I don’t know how “not that tech advanced” you are but a Chromebook with Developer Mode enabled [Dev mode allows you to get at the Debian11(“Bullseye”) Linux underneath and install/run programs such as Lightburn] and just a couple of added libraries is usually all that is required. I’ve not tested this on a Chromebook with Debian12(“bookworm”) yet…
– David
Im beginning to think the latter. Do you know of a good chromebook app that is simular to light burn.?
No need to not be sure.
Enter this into the address bar in Chrome.
chrome://system
Then expand “cpuinfo”. What is shown there?
There are no apps I would consider comparable to LightBurn at this time.
What am I looking fo??
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 122
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz
stepping : 8
microcode : 0x1c
cpu MHz : 1965.490
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 24
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault cat_l2 cdp_l2 ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms mpx rdt_a rdseed smap clflushopt intel_pt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts umip rdpid md_clear arch_capabilities
vmx flags : vnmi preemption_timer posted_intr invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad ept_1gb flexpriority apicv tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest vapic_reg vid ple shadow_vmcs ept_mode_based_exec tsc_scaling
bugs : spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips : 2188.80
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 122
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz
stepping : 8
microcode : 0x1c
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 24
wp : yes
This means you are on an Intel x64 processor, albeit a fairly slow one.
However, it should be capable of running Linux apps.
See here how to activate Linux on your machine.
Set up Linux on your Chromebook - Chromebook Help (google.com)
After doing so, take a look at @dkj4linux’s post where he has some tips about how to run this.
Hi David.
Been trying to get my new chromebook to run lightburn. I have read and uploaded/enabled Linux files. I have followed several different setups. Non resulting in any success. I have a Asus chromebook, that I have been told is capable of running Linux.Some one got me to load Linux apps Descover. But that still dosn’t recognise lightburn. Could you give me a more detailed breakdown of how you achieved to get lightburn to run.
Thanks in advance
David,
I’ve not had to do any of this in a while and will be limited as to how detailed I can get. Hopefully others will chime in as required.
First, you need to insure you have enabled Developer Mode on your Chromebook to activate Linux (Debian 11) functionality. Follow the link in @berainlb’s post above to “Turn on Linux”. This must be accomplished successfully before anything else will apply. After the setup delay of 10 minutes or so, you should have a Linux terminal window in which to issue the “cat /etc/os-release” command (exactly as shown with no quotes and it is case-sensitive!) after your prompt (the “:~$” after the green text)…
It should return a block of information as above… verifying the VERSION is “11 (bullseye)”.
If this is successful, you’ll be ready to download Lightburn and install any missing libraries as in my earlier post. I’ll not detail this further until you confirm you have enabled Developer Mode on your Chromebook.
Good luck.
– David
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