Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthem
Unfortunately, Chromebooks are buttoned down pretty well. You can get a distro on there doing something like a chroot, but that is a compromise, pure and simple. Due to the secure nature of ChromeOS and it's relationship to the hardware that it ships with (which takes a holistic approach to security), putting something else on the machine is not ideal. It can be done, but, like I said, things like a chroot are a compromise.
|
Chroot would, indeed, be unsatisfactory and obviously not the desired goal. Fortunately you can just replace ChromeOS with no real difficulties - if you don't replace the bios (which may not be possible on all machines?) you will always have to hit CTRL+L to boot. Not ideal, but really who cares - especially if, like me, your computer goes for months without being shut down or rebooted (usually only when I'm cleaning and want to unplug everything and move it out of the way).