Suggestion to update FAQ

Help for Audacity on GNU/Linux.
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Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade (see https://www.audacityteam.org/download/).
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AudacityOnChromeOS
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Suggestion to update FAQ

Post by AudacityOnChromeOS » Sun May 17, 2020 12:21 pm

At https://www.audacityteam.org/download/linux/ I read the following:
Chromebooks
Audacity does not run on Chrome OS. Although not officially supported, it is possible in principle to run Audacity on a Chromebook under a Chrome version of Linux Ubuntu.
And at the linked page
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... tml#chrome
I read similar, well I have great news.

Chromebooks released from 2018 and on all have built in Linux and support Debian package.
Including installing Audacity - and it works!
For some Chromebooks the hardware acceleration of the video card is not yet perfect, so the icons of Audacity can show up as black squares, this can be fixed by https://community.smarttech.com/s/artic ... uage=en_US and after that it all just works.

For now I only see the 2.2.2 Debian Package, and I love to try 2.4 of when the debian package is released.

P.S. For people with chromebooks who can't find linux; https://www.androidcentral.com/how-inst ... chromebook how you could enable Debia Stretch, recently the ChromeOS UI did change a bit for configuring, but itś still about enabling Crostini Linux (Beta) - but it just works fine.

Then on the Linux comand line run
sudo apt install audacity
and after a few moments you'll have the Audacity icon available like you have your other apps available in ChromeOS.

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Re: Suggestion to update FAQ

Post by steve » Sun May 17, 2020 1:22 pm

Thanks for the update.
Google currently say that support for Debian applications on Chrome OS is "experimental", but it looks like it is gradually becoming more mainstream.
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

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Re: Suggestion to update FAQ

Post by AudacityOnChromeOS » Thu May 21, 2020 12:21 pm

I think usefull to mention: I've tested this on a Intel generation 8 based chromebook AND on a MediaTek MT8173C based chromebook, both work fine.

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