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Originally Posted by rcentros
I think it's more than security. I think Crostini is basically a virtual machine running in ChromeOS. It's kind of weird because ChromeOS is a modified Linux distribution also (Gentoo), but Crostini is Debian. At any rate, accessing USB ports via a VM has always been a little tricky. It has two layers to get through.
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I can't find the link now. On reddit a google chrome developer basically says as much, off the record. Security first. And they have limited resources.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/co...ul_as_crouton/
Lot's there about the USB etc issue. The developer states that Chromebook and Crostini is not designed for tinkerers; it's for corporations and academia etc. That is it's target, and it will be hard to make it do anything else, by design.
(An Aside: As such, Crouton will allow more freedom, but carries it's own work and risks, and is a totally different route. It will require a lot of resources, minimum 32 GB device, and if it's not dual boot, it's possible to brick the device. This might be the better option for someone like me, at least at the moment--and then there is the issue of drivers etc...Sounds like work. I would only go this route was well trod for the device I was doing it on. But I might do this if I could pick up a device dirt cheap. And then I'd lose other functionality, like remote desktop. So, it's not for me either.)
I think, if crostini does what you need out of the box, then yeah, it's an excellent option, and that day may one day come, even for me. But it is "limited" by design. A buyer should carefully consider whether they fit within those boundaries.