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they could have bought used ones for $50 on Ebay and installed Debian. Would you care to estimate how long it would take to source even 100 working $50 laptops

by dagw 3y ago

they could have bought used ones for $50 on Ebay and installed Debian. Would you care to estimate how long it would take to source even 100 working $50 laptops, install Debian on all of them, and make sure they all actually work (where "work" includes having enough battery to get through a school day)? Plus even then you wouldn't actually get away from Google since the school probably uses gmail, Google classroom, Google Docs etc.

michaelt 3y ago
> Would you care to estimate how long it would take to source even 100 working $50 laptops Simply buy 100 chromebooks from 2017 that a school district is trashing because they aren't receiving security updates any more. /s
xet7 3y ago
If those Chromebooks are same model, install and configure Debian, newest browser, etc once. Then use dd to backup internal harddrive disk image, and restore to other chromebooks. Change UUID, hostname etc with script. sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/usbharddrive/debian.img bs=20M conv=sync status=progress https://github.com/xet7/chromebook https://github.com/xet7/chromebook