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Everything was going fine UNTIL.... one accidental press of the space bar and you wipe everything out! Yikes. :) Still looks great, but something tells me thi

by dpcan 12y ago

Everything was going fine UNTIL.... one accidental press of the space bar and you wipe everything out! Yikes. :) Still looks great, but something tells me this would be in my kids' hands for about 3 days until everything accidentally got wiped out.

mojombo 12y ago
To be fair, pressing SPACE gets you a 2nd confirmation screen that must also be accepted, before your fate is sealed. And even then it just places you back into normal ChromeOS mode. The installer can easily be re-run to get you back to Codestarter-factory-settings, and is actually a pretty nice learning experience all on its own. But, yeah, those are all rationalizations for what is a non-ideal experience. I'm hoping to find a good solution to the problem.
- dpcan 12y ago
  But what about all your saved work? Reinstalling and losing everything could be a real tear jerker for kids. In fact, it's unlikely they would start over, possibly resulting in giving up on it completely given the emotional side effects. Maybe the solution should have a cloud backup option built in that uses Dropbox or something to clone all your data. Then at least you are just a couple-hour restore away from being back online.
zanny 12y ago
The mechanisms to completely wreck Windows are simpler than the same process on Linux. At least on Ubuntu, you need to enter a root password to delete /usr. On Windows until really recent versions deleting /Windows/sys32 was as easy a few explorer clicks. But even then, you can still just delete a few arbitrary DLLs and wreck the system all the same.
- dpcan 12y ago
  Create a guest login for the kids and they can hardly mess up anything. There's a big difference between hitting space bar and OK and losing everything, and finding a way to delete the windows system folders, considering they are usually hidden to begin with.

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Everything was going fine UNTIL.... one accidental press of the space bar and you wipe everything out! Yikes. :) Still looks great, but something tells me thi

by dpcan 12y ago

mojombo 12y ago
To be fair, pressing SPACE gets you a 2nd confirmation screen that must also be accepted, before your fate is sealed. And even then it just places you back into normal ChromeOS mode. The installer can easily be re-run to get you back to Codestarter-factory-settings, and is actually a pretty nice learning experience all on its own. But, yeah, those are all rationalizations for what is a non-ideal experience. I'm hoping to find a good solution to the problem.
- dpcan 12y ago
  But what about all your saved work? Reinstalling and losing everything could be a real tear jerker for kids. In fact, it's unlikely they would start over, possibly resulting in giving up on it completely given the emotional side effects. Maybe the solution should have a cloud backup option built in that uses Dropbox or something to clone all your data. Then at least you are just a couple-hour restore away from being back online.
zanny 12y ago
The mechanisms to completely wreck Windows are simpler than the same process on Linux. At least on Ubuntu, you need to enter a root password to delete /usr. On Windows until really recent versions deleting /Windows/sys32 was as easy a few explorer clicks. But even then, you can still just delete a few arbitrary DLLs and wreck the system all the same.
- dpcan 12y ago
  Create a guest login for the kids and they can hardly mess up anything. There's a big difference between hitting space bar and OK and losing everything, and finding a way to delete the windows system folders, considering they are usually hidden to begin with.