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Why would you get the Acer C710? Those are antiqued.

1. Install the software center Go to the start menu and open the terminal. In the terminal type: sudo apt-get install vlc ubuntu-restricted-extras ttf-ubuntu-font-family software-center synaptic You can check out this link: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html After the software center is installed you will have a much easier time installing programs. Either type the name of the program you want in the search box there or just download the package from google and click on the downloaded file. It should open in the software center and then just press install.

2. The default browser in crouton sucks. With a different browser you should be able to download.

3. Youtube should work in a modern browser, i.e. after you install chrome or firefox.

4. After the first time you go to linux and come back to chrome, to come back to linux press on ctrl alt fwd and then in the weird looking window press ctrl alt refresh, it should take you back to linux.

5. Just search on the web how to update crouton. It's plenty documented. To update the linux go to start, system> update manager> and then follow the instructions there. But to update crouton you just delete the old crouton file, get the new one, and then from the chrome os terminal you type a command.

If you still have troubles and you just want to install vlc you open the terminal on linux and type sudo apt-get install vlc. After that you enter your linux password and then you might need to type "y" when it asks you if you want to install it and press enter. Yes, Linux is quite frustrating at start when you don't know what you're doing.

Here is a link describing how TOR works: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview

It depends on what you're trying to do, but yes it's secure. I believe your service provider can still see your activity though.

It worked! Here's how I did it.

I copied the 50-synaptics.conf file from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (if the folder does not exist then mkdir) and added the line

> Option "TapButton3" "2"

under the part that starts with

> Section "InputClass"

You can find the details on different options in this manual:

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/synaptics.4.html

You sound like you are already familiar with Linux so you probably already know more than I do.

But this website was the most helpful for me after installing crouton.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

If you are interested in old school emulation, Voltron00x has a good write up on it.

http://www.voltron00x.com/?p=174

Personally for me, PS1 emulation is more convenient and works flawlessly with the windows version of ePSXe. You will need to install "WINE" via software center to use it.

Via software center : Audacity for audio editing, Audacious for Audio playback, VLC for video playback. Steam can be downloaded from the website. "Compton" is a great compositor, better than what is installed with xfce. it can be downloaded through software center too. I recommend "Handbrake" for video editing. Great for converting mkv's or other file types to mp4. You don't want the version that comes with the Ubuntu Software center. You will need to install the repository and program through command line. Handbrakes website offers instruction. Plex media center can be done, but is a pain.

Any of these things can be searched on this sub reddit and on /r/chromeos. I have wrote up pretty extensively about all of these things.

Good luck.

Here are some of the basic things that got me started that improved my experience dramatically: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

The font tweaks in particular are nice.

Try this :

http://www.howtogeek.com/208368/how-to-run-a-full-linux-desktop-in-a-browser-tab-on-your-chromebook/

Now you can just click on the crouton icon to get to crouton. It makes using crouton as easy as any other tab.

Thanks for your comments! So I guess the extra 200 or 300 would be to get the same performance in a 2.38/2.96 pound body. Which would probably be worth it to me, if I'm going to spend a lot on it...

There's no FXCE, but there is XFCE and LXDE. LXDE ist very basic and lightweight. XFCE ist still light compared to KDE and Unity but has all the functionality you need plus you can make it look very nice.

Take a look at the WebUp8 Guide on what to do after installing crouton: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html With the xfce tweaks it looks fantastic in my opinion.

I followed this guide to get the volume and brightness keys working: THINGS TO DO AFTER INSTALLING UBUNTU ON A CHROMEBOOK USING CROUTON

I installed Secure Shell and Crosh Window, then you won't have to keep the crosh tab open. But, unfortunately there is no easier way to open crouton.

The screw is there to protect your Chromebook against opportunistic attackers. You can read a bit about the philosophy on the Chromium wiki.

it will be a screw with a segmented metallic ring underneath it - the screw completes the circuit and pulls the WP signal low (I believe - depends on model). Here's a pic for the Acer c720, I'd assume yours will be similar (pic at page bottom):
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/acer-c720-chromebook

The one easiest for me to follow was Lifehacker's. It hasn't been updated in years, but the thing is nothing's changed about the installation process.

Neither Vagrant nor Docker work in a Crouton chroot. But I was able to install and use rkt (container runtime from CoreOS which can run Docker images). The only gotcha is that you have to use host networking, the virtualized networking modes do not work.

I actually don't think this is a crouton-specific problem. I've seen the exact same issue you describe occur on a chromebrew pkg of nano (ie: natively installed and running on chromeos). It looks like a libncurses problem (thats the lib which terminal apps use for full screen addressing, and it maintains alternate screen buffers and switched between them). Upgrading libncurses and recompiling nano worked for a while, but then the problem came back sporadically and (as a 20+ year vim user) I haven't bothered to debug it ...

If you don't want to go down the tried and trusted (n)vim or emacs route, and something like acme (via plan9port) is too exotic for your tastes (it really replaces your entired terminal, not just your text editor), and you just want a simple, basically capable, non-gui text editor (otherwise, why use nano?), have a look at micro.

It fills all the above criteria, plus its a single, statically compiled binary. So you can just download and go ...

I recommend doing some of these, installs some extra fonts and extras, gets rid of screensaver.

Also, if you plan on installing Chrome/Chromium or Mozilla, purge netsurf-gtk (the default browser).

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

Hi!

To install crouton, do not unzip it. That should clear up your issue!

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/install-ubuntu-on-your-chromebook-using.html

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

Yes there is. If you use the standard settings Crouton will install 12.04 with Xfce, but you can choose between several different versions of Ubuntu, and several different desktop environments. To install 14.04 with Xfce, use the following line:

> sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t xfce -e

The details are explained here. First remove your current install by using the code under "Removing Ubuntu/Crouton".

I'm not sure how to do it via the package manager, but I installed Skype on my Chromebook by going here and selecting "Ubuntu 12.10 (multiarch)" and opening the .deb file that downloaded.

Also, are you on an ARM Chromebook? I don't think Skype is compatible with ARM.

Edit: I accidentally a word

you did not install a desktop manager, like xfce. Hence why you need to start all apps via terminal. have you taken a look at this:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343

https://www.linux.com/learn/how-easily-install-Ubuntu-Chromebook-crouton%20

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343 After you downloaded the install are you pressing Ctrl+alt+T to bring up terminal? shell sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t xfce If you're doing this on a Chromebook Pixel, change it to: sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t touch,xfce

It should take a minute for to to start installing

I just ordered Transcend 128GB this myself. According to the reviews runs a but warm but Transcend said they're going to fix the issue on the next update.

Transcend 128GB

I'm following this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/162120/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-your-chromebook-with-crouton/

Will this get the job done? EDIT: Actually, it's just a prettier version of what you just said, so I answered my own question. I wish this hadn't taken me all day. I just want to play Terraria T^T

Is there a separate guide I should know about for getting Steam using my usb external hard drive?

If you're just starting out, IDLE is in the repos so easy to install and work with. I've had no problems using Atom on my Acer R11 )(c738t 4gb).

I recently wrote an article asking about Python IDEs. There were ton of suggestions in the comments like PyCharm, Jupyter, VS code, Eclipse with PyDev, etc.

Thanks for the reply. The line of command was from this "howtogeek" article.. How should I have phrased it?

Do you know a good place to learn terminal instructions? Some of it seems intuitive but the resources I'm finding about Crouton and the like often assume a level of knowledge I don't have.

Alternatively you can enter the sana chroot "sudo enter-chroot -n 'nameofchroot'" then use nano to edit /etc/apt/sources.list write it out and then run the apt-get update and dist-upgrade commands. Made more sense to me than trying to CAT it into the end of the file.

Achieves the same goal and seems to do the trick, thank you.

Not strictly a Crouton thing - but for other people who find this page, here's how that EOF command works in Linux

No, you might be able to get it working, but it would need some real tweaking. See, LTS is built as a really stable OS, and doesn't add the more modern GPU updates that might be a little more unstable on 14.04, eschewing the graphical performance for stability.

Seeking out and installing updated drivers might make the whole OS a bit more unstable causing crashes and other glitches. So while some Steam games might work, there's no guarantees, and it might break your ability to hot switch back into ChromeOS.

There's a couple solutions you can look at.

First of all, the awesome thing about chroots is that you can have multiples. So install your Steam games onto an external drive or SD card, and try a few distros. Each time, before you try new drivers, backup the chroot so you can restore if it breaks. You can also switch between the different builds to find one you like the most, then erase the others one by one.

Secondly, you could try installing Wily, aka version 15. It's the newest build supported by crouton, but needs a lot more fiddling and tweaking to get working : it's still within the list of fully supported drivers.

Third, here's a PPA full of the most bleeding edge 14.04 drivers. Many of these can make your distro really unstable, but at the benefit of increased 2d and 3d performance. Use at your own risk (I use this same package with Unity on a Pixel 2 LS)

I'm no expert here, but chrubuntu should be on a usb drive or something so when you start your laptop be sure to remove it before so it starts in developper mode of chrome os. Then download crouton from their site (i think?) and follow instructions...here's a link http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-linux-chromebook/

They do exactly what you should be going through (Chrubuntu install - Chrubuntu remove - Crouton install) hope this was helpful :)

Ohhh, I think I might have found the problem. It's 404'ing because they don't have a version for precise. They only have it for Vivid, Trusty and Utopic. I'd assume I could edit the ".list" file and change "precise" to "trusty" or something like that? Or would installing a driver for a different version of Ubuntu cause all hell to break loose? Thanks for the tip on getting rid of xfce by the way.

Ninja edit: Or should I upgrade to Trusty? I've used it before but I've heard from multiple places to just stick with precise for some reason.

Ninja edit 2: Is it even possible to update to something like 14.04 on Luna? I'm pretty sure it's based on 12.04 LTS. Sorry for all the questions/problems, you've been really helpful.

I was married to Visual Studio and KDevelop for a very long time, but at some point I got bitten and now I'm a Sublime Text zombie.

There is a plugin for Sublime Text called Javatar which enables autocomplete (autocomplete being a feature thats impossible to live without working with Java imho).

When I'm dealing with Java its through the Android SDK, which now ships with it's own IDE, so this is what I use.

I haven't used java with this code-server setup yet, but I'd imagine it could work if you hosted it locally, without using the coder.com service. Here's an article I found from Microsoft that shows you how to get started with Java in VSCode in general - If you're able to install the JDK on your local machine and install all of the extensions they suggest in your self hosted code-server, it seems like it would work. Extension support with coder is a little problematic, though.

I have looked for the location of Drive offline storage in ChromeOS but I can't find it. It must be obfuscated. In other words, there is no straightforward location on the filesystem you can map into a chroot to get Google Drive. I think InSync is your best option, unfortunately.

Sort-of good news is, Google Drive has been integrated into Gnome Shell 3.18. It's default in Fedora but in Ubuntu it needs to be enabled: http://www.webupd8.org/2016/03/use-gnome-318-google-drive-integration.html

Bad news is it's only compatible with Xenial. Which so far I have been unable to get to work in a chroot (with my DE of choice--Gnome--at least. Haven't tried with Unity or XFCE).

To install Chromium:

Update apt's list of available packages from repository.

$ sudo apt update

Install Chromium's Ubuntu package via apt.

$ sudo apt install -y chromium-browser

You can now open Chromium from your application list

If you want full chrome just go here iirc:

https://www.google.com/chrome/

About the mouspad part, what version of Ubuntu are you on. If you don't know you can just show me the command you used to install crouton.

Thank you for the thoughts. I will continue to look into it. My impression is that ChromeOS encrypts all user data by default on non-dev-mode Chromebooks, according to this: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/security-overview. I just want to make sure that if I used chrx or another tool to dual boot, those default security measures wouldn't be compromised. The Linux side I know I'd have to take care of, but I'm more concerned with understanding security repercussions on the ChromeOS side. Interesting stuff!

Crouton is not doing this. Chrome OS is asking you for this password. Some stuff on that is here:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device

IIRC you may need to use the "VT2" shell and set a password as described before you can use "sudo" in the crosh shell.

Hmm, I'm not sure. It's strange that it just stopped working too. I've got nothing besides live with it, install a 3rd party launcher like Launcy or reinstall. Sorry.

Open up Ubuntu, open a terminal (it's like the command prompt in Windows, you should see it in the Applications menu at the top). It should look something like THIS. After you have the Terminal opened, type into it

sudo apt-get install htop

Enter your UNIX password which you set during the Crouton installation. This will install a program called htop. Afterwards, go back to the terminal and type

htop

You should see something like THIS. Now check how your system is using resources (top left corner). Is the CPU use high? Is the Mem useage high?

Okay, found a solution to the first portion over on Stack Overflow. Not exactly the first place I'd look, typically, but hey it works ;)

Intel users jealous of ARM (just guessing ;))

I'm sync'ing quite a few dirs between a few Linux and Android devices with Syncthing. And it works just fine. It's very much like an open source, in-our-hands Dropbox. Minus URL sharing, and CPU/memory footprint is lower than of Dropbox by an order of magnitude! Yeah even on my small dual ARM Android and Atom Z520 netbook.

android-arm and linux-arm make for 19% of total numbers of devices using Syncthing.

I think I've read a CrOs app is undergo but maybe it's just me taking my desire as truth.

What are you're needs? What DE works for you depends on what you need to do, along with other personal preferences.

I'm a software developer, I use the Unity DE with trusty release (14.04). I like Atom for a text editor.

I don't know what terminal commands you need that were missing for you. The only sudo apt-get installs I do on a new chroot are:

sudo-apt-get install gnome-terminal && sudo apt-get install git

If you haven't already, I recommend you make a bootstrap file for quicker installation of new chroots. Command would be:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -d -f ~/Downloads/mybootstrap.tar.bz2 -r myrelease (trusty, utopic, vivid, wily, etc..)

To install a chroot with your bootstrap, with Unity DE and Chrome Web Browser, use

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -f ~/Downloads/mybootstrap.tar.bz2 -t unity,chrome

I recommend you enable workspaces. You can do this by opening System Settings -> Appearance -> Behavior -> Check box to enable workspaces. This will allow you to have 4 workspaces that you can navigate by pressing CTRL + ALT + ARROW_KEY (Left Arrow key, move to workspace to left, Up Arrow key, move to above workspace, etc).

I hope this helps you.

this was the tutorial i followed: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/install-ubuntu-on-your-chromebook-using.html

Again, after a powerwash i just ran

sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t xfce,touch

I only use crouton on an SD card now. I format the whole drive to EXT4. You may want to use the flash drive, rather than format a 750gb hd to that?

My exact command to install it to an external is :

" sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t core,audio,xorg,x11,gtk-extra,extension,chrome,xfce,keyboard -e -p /media/removable/SD "

I recently learned that you do not have to list all of those targets because all dependency's are installed for a specific target. That being said I'm too lazy to figure out which ones are redundant right now. And that command works just fine.

Switch out "trusty" for the ubuntu version you want. Switch out "xfce" for the desktop environment you want. Remove chrome if you don't want it. The "-e" adds encryption. If you don't want that delete it. The "-p" specifies the location to install. Switch out "SD" in my command for the name of YOUR formatted drive. I use SD because I formatted my drive with the name SD.

These are my favorite pages to suggest when just getting started.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/install-ubuntu-on-your-chromebook-using.html

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

Good luck.

I have the same model and installed crouton a few days ago. I picked up a few tips here on this reddit after searching for 'toshiba'.

I chose trusty and unity and I'm pretty please with it. The trackpad behaves slightly differently which a mild annoyance but I think I'll get used to it. When it was installed I then installed synaptic package manager and software center and then installed more software from there, such as the restricted extra's, vlc player, google chrome, libre office, deluge. When I was done I still had 6GB free which I was pleased with. I'm using a memory stick to keep my data on.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

you can change the desktop background by right clicking and selecting desktop options or something of the like. you can also hide the icons from showing on the desktop.

Download Software center to install programs, like Firefox or chromium browser. If you want chrome you can use firefox or chromium to manually download chrome from the chrome web page and then install the .deb file with software center. In the future you can optionally add chrome to the chroot installation using the target "-t chrome" ect. (example "-t chrome,xfce")

to download open terminal and enter---> sudo apt-get install software-center

Web page that helped me the most when starting out.--->

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

I ended up sticking with xfce over gnome or unity desktop because it was the lightest and is pretty straight forward for getting around once getting used to it.

good luck.

Also, you can move, make disappear or edit the bottom and top panels in xfce. Right click on either of them and choose panel preferences.

(edited for extra info)

I'm actually completely new to Linux, so this past week has been a lot of frustration and education at the same. Time. Hopefully my instructions work for others.

After you get it all installed, this Web page I have found to be the best so far at pointing Linux beginners like my self in the right direction. In "What to do next" .

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html?m=1

i remember it being a pain to fix while i had crouton (im running xubuntu 14.04 off seabios now).

check these links:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/adobe-flash-player-hardware.html

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/enable-hardware-acceleration-in-chrome.html

the main thing that gives it away is going to a youtube video, right-clicking the player and selecting 'stats for nerds'. if it shows software accelerated video then you might get better performance enabling hardware acceleration.

hope that fixes your problem!

Oh, I was reading this the other day, and concluded that updates are not fun "Ubuntu may stop working after a Chrome OS update." http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html

Ubuntu Trusty LTS (14.04) is the default, since it's a Long Term Support release. Here's what to do after installing Ubuntu on a Chromebook.

You're going to want to install the software venter if you haven't already, use the command sudo apt-get install software-center. That way you can have a GUI for installing programs. Check out this website for more help setting up crouton. http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-on.html?m=1

I use a VPN provided by my office, and connect to it using openconnect in a crouton chroot. Due to the way ChromeOS handles networking, it can be quite an adventure to use a VPN on crouton. First thing, ChromeOS's connection manager shill likes to flush network devices it does not create and manage itself. So before you enter your chroot, you have to block shill from destroying the network device ExpressVPN creates. Assuming it's called tun0 (as mine is via openconnect), in ChromeOS open a crosh window (ctrl-alt-t), and enter the following:

crosh> shell

chronos@localhost / $ sudo stop shill

chronos@localhost / $ sudo start shill BLOCKED_DEVICES="tun0"

chronos@localhost / $ sudo startxfce4 -n yourchroot

So now at least your tun0 device (or whatever network device ExpressVPN creates) won't be automatically flushed by shill.

Now once in your chroot, try starting ExpressVPN and see if that fixes things. If not, it may be due to how ChromeOS handles networking - instead of putting everything into the main routing table like openconnect expects by default it sets up a unique routing table for all devices, WiFi, Ethernet, etc. To solve this I had to modify the vpnc-script used by openconnect to account for the separate routing table. If ExpressVPN on Linux uses OpenVPN/openconnect, this type of solution might work for you too. In case it's helpful, here's the issue in chromium where I got the networking hashed out:

> low profile usb 3.0 Samsung

Do you mean This One?

I think you’ll need to set up the VPN in Chrome OS. How to do this varies a lot with the VPN. The article

mentions several approaches for NordVPN. I lack experience with these because my employer uses PulseSecure, which provides a VPN client for Chrome OS,

Ok awesome! So I saw PNY was having a sale on microSDs today. Would something like this be good enough to run my chroot from?

link to product

After a bit of research I decided to go with a Lexar Professional 633x

I found that the 95MB/s is close enough to the card reader's maximum rate, and that more expensive cards with higher rates would be useless overkill..

I'd recommend checking your particular card reader's max speeds and go with something close to that.

External USB 3.0 SSD is working great for me too. I run multiple chroots from it to avoid filling up my 32GB internal storage. I bought this one at Best Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T3-Portable-SSD-MU-PT250B/dp/B01AVF6WN2/

Currently using a Patriot Spark USB. Performance is decent, I can still run most applications on it, although it does get a bit hot with any file/programs that are overly resource intensive, like CS GO etc.

In comparison to an SSD upgrade (which isn't possibly on the Dell 11 unfortunately), it won't be as good, but it's still very usable.

Hope this helps

> I later found out that it was happening because I was using a USB 2.0, and when I made a new chroot on a SDXC card with higher transfer speeds, all my problems (or at least those regarding that error and the subsequent crashing) went away.

Yeah, it's already on an SDXC card actually, this one (150mb/s) I wonder if the 300mb/s one (that only goes up to 32gb capacity) would be a lot better?

>Also, I couldn't find any output/logfile either, to answer your question.

Couldn't get Wine working properly with Wily anyway so went back to Trusty - it does feel like it's a lot quicker and snappier too anyway.

I'm using this SD card with the same Chromebook model as you and I'm running Crouton and Steam on it without any issues. I keep it plugged in pretty much all the time:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J29FF4G/

I used a 32GB USB drive for my crouton install, and eventually for dual booting, performance with a good usb3 drive is as good if not better than a standard non-ssd sata drive.

The speed of the SD slot is about the same speed as usb3, provided you use the higher-speed class cards.

The one's I've used with good results on my chromebook are: PNY 64gb SDXC and USB3 Patriot Spark.

Is performance also different with the touchpad or a wired mouse? Perhaps its a setting related to xorg in crouton, in that case you'd still have the same problem regardless of what mouse you use.

I own one BT mouse and many more wireless ones, even with the cheapest ones like this $6 one are pretty much all the same. The only mouse I've ever notice an improvement with is my (wired) Razor Naga, which is WAY more responsive than any other mouse i've used before or since. Even with the Razor though, I'd only recommend them to gamers, due to the cost, they ARE worth it, but it doesn't matter much outside of gaming.

Makes sense. Yes, at $800, I'm tempted to just upgrade to a Mac Air for a few hundred more, since I could use Xcode.

I'll check out Newegg and Amazon's 13 inch selection. Thanks.

Edit: I found this Acer S3 with HD (not full HD) + an i3 for $484. Maybe I could just upgrade to an SSD?

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-S3-391-6046-13-3-Inch-Ultrabook-Windows/dp/B00AH4A950/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1424664158&sr=1-6&keywords=laptop