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    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 :)

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        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.

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            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.

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        Good question, I don’t know! I haven’t touched a Chromebook since at least 2020…

        If I were to do it now, I’d probably still use crouton, but get it to download something other than Ubuntu 16.04, or I’d just dual boot.

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    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

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    7 months ago

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

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