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Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

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Re: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

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Post by ISL »

I tried Crouton as a gamble, and it's paid off extremely well. It's the nicest linux laptop I've ever had, as the hardware support worked out of the box.

Being able to swap back and forth between Chrome OS and crouton at runtime has been great.

Difficulty resolving display settings for a cranky old projector under linux? No problem under Chrome OS.

Linux temporarily horked by an update, but I really need to check email? No problem.

I haven't needed to configure any linux wireless settings on the laptop either, as it operates through a crouton interface.

Want to let someone borrow your computer? Chrome OS is an instantly-understood interface.

Want to hit instead of ? Use the windows key as an unmapped personal key? Well, you can't have everything in life.

Battery life has been great, and the in-flight wireless deal that came with the Chromebook has pretty much offset the laptop's cost.

Thank you, Crouton devs. You've made my life better.

Re: Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

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Post by enoch_r »

StevePerkins wrote: post #10
satysin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it would be nice if they officially supported Linux on their Chromebooks for Android Studio if nothing else. With the Play Store coming to Chrome OS I hope it is only a matter of time before we see some kind of official developer setup. The Pixel would make a really nice machine IMHO.

I have an Acer C720 Chromebook on which I tinkered with crouton, before re-purposing the device as a YouTube player for my toddler. It was a cheap little novelty that I enjoyed playing with for awhile, but I just don't fully understand the impulse to turn these things into Linux development workstations. You have to more or less root the device... press a Ctrl key combo during every boot in order to keep it rooted...…

Coming from the other side: I run Linux on a Chromebook Pixel 2015, but I don't use Crouton, I just replaced ChromeOS entirely. Except for "ctrl-L" on every boot (which, really, I don't reboot my machine enough for it to be anything but an extremely minor annoyance) it works perfectly. It's vastly higher-quality (i7 processor, 16GB RAM, fantastic screen, great battery life, fast-charging with USB-C, the build quality of a MBP) and more linux-compatible than anything else I could have purchased for a similar price ($1300).

The only real downside is the 64GB SSD, but I can augment that with an SD card. I'm pretty deeply in love with this laptop as a development machine.

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