I don’t know how to put tags on (using eternity), but this is, in fact, serious.

So, turns out my high school left developer mode accessible on chromebooks. Sick of the restrictions that even make doing schoolwork slow, I wanted to set up dual boot for Linux Mint and Chrome Os.

My main concern, however, is maintaining the original content on my chromebook in order to keep it functional (and still appear somewhat standard to the school) while also giving me the access to the stuff I need.

Entering google’s developer mode claims to “erase all local data”. If this does not include applications, please tell me as that would solve every problem below.

Main concerns:

  • My school uses GoGuardian, and some teachers make use of the remote screen viewing feature. On another school computer, creating an account using my school gmail automatically installed the app, and I’m hoping a separate set-up will still do this.

  • My school has a lot of kiosk apps, some of which I have used, others which I have not. I’ll provide a list if asked, but my main concerns are testnav (ap test), DRC insight, and NWEA secure testing+state solutions.

Inb4 “don’t do this”: I do not care, and this does not help. If the task becomes too much for me, then I’m not doing it. But as of now, I’m deadset on trying to get this to work.

Edit: It’s not a good idea to risk your computer, I realized that as time went on. The challenges and the fact that the easiest options rely on hardware manipulation are just unsafe in general. Vox OS, as suggested by another user who develops the project, worked more than fine and doesn’t risk destruction. Settle for a little less in exchange for little risk.

  • @RightHandOfIkarosEnglish
    17•11 months ago

    Inb4 “don’t do this”: I do not care, and this does not help. If the task becomes too much for me, then I’m not doing it.

    I don’t care. Don’t do this. Depending on where you live, altering your school assigned computer in this manner can be legally considered malicious abuse of a computer because you are not authorized to do so and would be exceeding your authorization to use that computer. That can carry a fine and imprisonment, and depending on circumstances can also remove your privilege to access any computer in the future, or even to be within a certain distance of one. This will severely limit your ability to live in increasingly computerized locations.

    Even if you do think you got away with it, your school’s IT department will know what you did, and they will be easily able to connect it to you. Whether they report that to police or not will depend on a lot of factors, but it would be more intelligent for you to simply avoid it altogether.

    Even if you do decide to attempt this, you’ll most likely lose all data on the ChromeOS side, but you would also not be able to access the ChromeOS software from Linux. Your school would just see your chromebook as powered off. So you would really only be using the Linux side when not at the school, at which point why not just use a different computer to do the work and then filetransfer to your chromebook? If its really as slow as you say then even a public library computer still running Windows XP would be more than fast enough for like, 95% of all schoolwork.