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Out of the box, Chromebooks are really not intended to do much other than consume web-based content, including sites like CodePen or other web-coding interfaces
by robgibbons 8y ago
Out of the box, Chromebooks are really not intended to do much other than consume web-based content, including sites like CodePen or other web-coding interfaces. It seems like you've explored those options fairly well.
If you can't modify the machines to run full Linux environments (ala crouton), you're mostly stuck with web-based experiences, or the apps provided to you by the Chrome Web Store.
Teaching your students to SSH into a Linux box and teaching them basic BASH skills is pretty worthwhile in itself. You seem to have made the best of a quirky situation.
- skybrian 8y agoThis is no longer true, at least for some Chromebooks. There is support for running Linux apps in a container: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md#Supported-Now https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...
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- dbdjfjrjvebd 8y agoCrouton changes this. Modern Chromebooks with Intel chips make a very reasonable dev environment.
- robgibbons 8y agoThe parent says they can't install a new Linux userspace (unless I misunderstood). I only assume this applies to crouton as well.
- gwilkes 8y agoTechnically, he probably can install crouton but that isn't such a good idea in a school environment as you need to enable developer mode on the device and you lose some of the security features of Chrome OS.
- mav3rick 8y agoChrome OS now supports a fully secure Linux environment. Perfect to play around with.