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The Chromebook is doing it right? Really? It wipes your hard disk if you enable developer mode(which is a painful process in itself). And then at every single

The Chromebook is doing it right? Really? It wipes your hard disk if you enable developer mode(which is a painful process in itself). And then at every single boot you either have to wait thirty seconds to go past a very scary warning or press Ctrl-D. Every single time you boot. If you switch back to ChromeOS, the hard disk is wiped again. I would love to see HN commenters' reactions if on disabling Secure Boot, the Windows 8 partition is wiped along with any documents and files you saved locally and if you wanted Windows 8 back, it wiped your Linux partition in the name of security.

Filligree 13y ago
Where "doing it right" is defined as making the computer safe against maid attacks? Yes, this is how that looks. I'm not saying it's actually secure; I haven't analyzed it in that kind of detail, and I don't even own one.
bookwormAT 13y ago
"I would love to see HN commenters' reactions if on disabling Secure Boot, the Windows 8 partition is wiped along with any documents and files you saved locally" The equivalent to a Windows 8 partition on ChromeOS is cloud storage like Google Drive, Dropbox or Skydrive. This cloud storage is not being wiped when you switch to or from developer mode. The local storage is just a temporary storage for downloads and caching. Oh, and entering developer mode on my Pixel was as easy as holding 3 keys down at the same time.