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- What is Chard?
Chard is a chroot (change root) that can safely live inside of an existing ChromeOS/Linux install to enable running apps and games!
- What is a chroot? Definition from wikipedia.org:
chroot is a shell command and a system call on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally cannot access) files outside the designated directory tree. The term chroot may refer to the chroot system call or the chroot command-line utility. The modified environment is called a chroot jail.
- Why does Chard exist?
I bought my Chromebook in 2020 because of the Borealis VM. In 2025, Google announced they were killing it. I did not want to lose my ability to run apps and games with excellent GPU acceleration so Chard was made. Crostini has awful performance. This project is made possible because of the hard work from the ChromeOS discord community.