Ok, thank you! That gives me some things to go on for now. I will try these out in the next couple of days (have some other things to work on for the moment), and will report back about any improvements I am able to make.
@paperdigits Lol! “Peppy” is the code name for this venerable Acer C-720 Chromebook, which was really the first model we were able to port a fully functioning native installation of linux on (and not simply through the “crouton” chroot script). It’s still going after 5 years!! I guess it is time for an upgrade, though. Thinking very heavily of purchasing the Alpha Centurion Nano…