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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by intoverflow2 on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:19AM (#13782941)
> crouton

Correct me if I'm wrong but is this not the hack where every time you boot your system it tells you to press a key to reset it and if you press that key it instantly blanks the partition.

This seem absurd even for an expert user to use full time let alone school kids.

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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by carussell on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:53AM (#13783206)
That's not crouton. That comes from Google's coreboot-derived firmware. See https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/2014-firmware-summit

It's true, though, that the whole process needs to be made more straightforward and easily circumventable. It's just not a part of crouton.

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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by intoverflow2 on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:20AM (#13783889)
Ok but one press of space during boot on this scary looking screen [1] and the whole system will need to be reinstalled and all data on the linux partition will be lost correct?

Just finding it ridiculous that HN users suggest this with a straight face every time we have this discussion.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/os-veri...

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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by carussell on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:43PM (#13785646)
Yes. It's stupid and is worse than it needs to be. See my last paragraph. I don't know what else I can say.
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