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On regular laptops, you open the lid and press the "On" button. On my Chromebook, it boots as soon as you open the lid, and so I press Ctrl-D instead of the "O
by broodbucket 13y ago
On regular laptops, you open the lid and press the "On" button.
On my Chromebook, it boots as soon as you open the lid, and so I press Ctrl-D instead of the "On" button. I thought it'd be a pain, but it doesn't bother me at all, and you say that makes it "practically useless"?
- tuananh 13y agoHe exaggerated to make a point but Ctrl D every single time you boot is kinda annoying.
- jonknee 13y agoOne more finger annoying than the power button which is what you would do on any other laptop. There is not a desktop Linux user alive who has not put up with more annoying things than hitting two keys to boot.
- avian 13y agoIncidentally, I'm a desktop Linux user for more than 10 years. I don't mind having to do annoying things once or twice to set things up. I do mind having to do them each and every time I pick up the computer, especially when I have bought it believing that I won't have to.
- DHowett 13y agoThe problem is that it's not just ^D on every boot, it's "press space twice in a thirty-second window and it will unceremoniously wipe all your data without a timeout." This will happen the moment you hand your computer to somebody of the sort who clicks through dialogs they don't ubderdtand, as the computer shuts off when it's slept for long enough. (The infuriating bit is how difficult it is to enter developer mode: two very secret keypresses and a thirty-second "please reconsider" grace period.)