Unboxing a $100 Chromebook

Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:26PM (#32200038)

Oh sure; x86 Chromebooks that support https://mrchromebox.tech firmware upgrades are actually some of the nicest Linux laptops on the market once they've been unlocked and flashed. I just want to call out that the author is precisely backwards and Crostini is a VM and a container and not bare Linux on hardware.

Edit: There's also Crouton, for an intermediate option that does need developer mode.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by moondev on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:40PM (#32200107)

laptop runs linux (chromeos) runs a linux vm via kvm (crosvm) running one or many LXD linux containers of user's choice (ubuntu, arch, debian)

You can even run docker/containerd inside the LXD container.

Now the question is has anyone tried running everything above with chromeos flex inside a vm with nested virtualization!

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by robbintt on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:38AM (#32201247)

I used mrchromebox with a 2018 pixelbook and compiling a kernel has been a serious pain, and I'm just copying others' hard work.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:49PM (#32208347)

Did you start with Google's "approved" kernel config and then modify it.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by robbintt on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:11AM (#32210512)

No, do you have a link to that? I can track back to my other sources and maybe do a better job.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by public_defender on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:39AM (#32202099)

I didn't know about Mr. Chromebox. Very cool. You can also press CTRL+D at boot when you have dev mode enabled to boot an OS from external storage. This is viable on ARM architectures with, for example, Arch Linux ARM.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:38PM (#32209763)

You can, but it's loud, freezes boot for 30s or until you hit the key combo, and if you hit the wrong key it wipes your device. Developer mode is a decent escape hatch but I wouldn't want to use it in "normal" use.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by public_defender on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:15PM (#32209993)

Yes, this is what I meant by "not the most frictionless experience."

However in my mind it was all paid back to me 100 fold when a customs officer at an international border tried to open my laptop and examine it, but was subjected to the sonic-boom beeping of dev mode boot timeout.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by rnk on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:48PM (#32257468)

What happened next? Did they say log in? Don't some countries, maybe the us say they will keep your laptop for "study" if you don't log in and let them snoop?

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