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the middle schooler: then I installed linux on my [school] chromebook me: um are you allowed to do that? middle schooler: I asked our tech teacher and he doesn't know what linux is so I decided yes
  • gramgan@lemmy.ml
    4·
    7 months ago

    I did this back in the day! The tool of choice as the time was crouton, because it came with a keybinding that let us stealthily switch back to the ChromeOS desktop whenever the teacher walked by :)

      • MimicJar@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        Crostini. https://chromeos.dev/en/linux

        A “one click” install of Debian (in a VM) that runs alongside your ChomeOS device. It’s a great starter tool for those getting used to Linux and even for the Linux Pro it gives you a terminal, which 99% of the time is all I need.

        You can use GUI applications as well so GIMP and other tools are available.

        Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

          • MimicJar@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 months ago

            As far as I know. You could probably get fancy moving to dev mode and then install whatever, but I’m plenty happy with Debian.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    2·
    7 months ago

    When you say tech teacher, like IT/Comp sci?

    What kind of tech teacher doesn’t know what Linux is?

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    My high school got us windows laptops but they had i3s and terrible windows defender configs so I swapped out the ssd, installed some ram (reason later), and installed Linux on it. I also exported the old drive image with windows on it into a VM so I can have all their spyware and stuff on it when necessary (hence the RAM). Before important state tests and whatnot I swap the old drive back so they don’t think I’m cheating.

    Edit: Oxford comma