Hey welcome back to the channel, in today's Tutorial Tuesday I'm going to
show you how to install Linux alongside Chrome OS using Crouton. Now this is a
full-blown Linux distribution that you can toggle back and forth between
Chrome OS and Linux and install all your favorite Linux applications as usual
I'll have links down in the description to everything I talked about and let's
get into the tutorial alright so here we are in the Chromebook and the first
thing we need to do is reboot this into recovery so we can put it into developer
mode super easy to do that all you do is hit the escape refresh and power button
it's going to restart into that recovery mode now all right so this is our
recovery mode and at this point all we need to do is hit the ctrl and D key to
get us into the option to put it into developer mode it's going to ask us to
turn the OS verification off when I hit enter when you come to this it's going
to make a loud beep unless you hit the ctrl D so when you get to this screen
it's just telling you it's gonna put it into developer mode just wait until this
times out or if you decide you don't want to do it go ahead and turn the
computer off but we're just gonna wait it out and let it go in so now it's
setting up the developer mode and when it boots into the operating system we're
gonna have to reset everything up from scratch just like it was a new
Chromebook alright so after a developer mode it came up and we went through the
setup and that is the point we're at now so we're ready to go ahead and install
crouton the first thing we need to do is download it so if you just go out to
Chrome look for crouton it's probably going to be the first item on the list
and all we need to do is go to this link and download it while it's downloading
scroll down a little bit and you're gonna see the instructions for the
install which is right here super easy to get this all set up so once that's
installed all we need to do is open the terminal and we're going to do that by
hitting ctrl alt T it brings up this terminal we can just drag this out to
the other side of the screen make it a little easier we need to go into a shell
so just type shell in here and then we're basically gonna just copy and
paste these commands from the left side into the right side so with this
first command does is it just puts crouton into a location that we can
execute it from then we're going to do sudo crouton T now in the instructions
that says xfce that is a Linux desktop you can look more on Linux desktop
there's a lot of information out there but if you want to know which ones are
available for crouton at this Dashti you can type list and it'll show you all the
different desktop environments that you have available for crouton you so for
the purposes of this tutorial we are just going to do what the instructions
say we're going to install crouton T xfce
so what this is going to do is it is going to go and download all the files
that we need it's going to set up the chroot for us and then when we come back
it's going to ask for username and password so right now I'm going to pause
the video and jump ahead to the end of this installation this does take a
little while so just be patient but you'll see things happening on the
screen so you know it's not stuck or anything all right so at this point our
installation is done it's asking us for a username so I'm just going to type one
in and then a password that we use to start this up and that is it the
installation is done now if we want to launch into that Linux session all we
need to do is do a sudo start xfce 4 so this is our xfce desktop and for this
tutorial I'm just going to use the default configuration you can go in and
configure this however you want now the first thing I would do once this is set
up this may not be necessary because it should get all the updates but just come
into a terminal I just click down here for the terminal and run the command
sudo apt update type in your password that you chose it's going to go through
and update the application repositories so the database for the the applications
that are available and at this point up in this area it would tell you if there
anything that needs to be upgraded and if there is you would just do sudo apt
upgrade and that just ensures that your system is up to date but at this point
we have a fully functional Linux installation alongside of our Chrome OS
and we can switch back and forth between the two and you do that by holding ctrl
alt shift and then the left arrow to get back to Chrome OS now you can see on my
Chromebook when I switch back the screen gets messed up and a quick way to fix
that is hit ctrl alt right arrow left arrow and it refreshes the screen
everything's good to go and if you want to switch back to the Linux installation
again all you do is hit the ctrl alt shift left arrow get back and you can
switch back and forth between Chrome OS and Linux all day long now if you want
to exit out of here you can just come up to the top go to log out and it'll exit
out there or bring you back to Chrome OS again I need to refresh the screen
another way to do that is to come down to the panel here and toggle the
nightlight on and off that just refreshes the screen and get you back up
and running as well so that's it pretty easy right and at this point you have a
full Linux distribution running alongside Chrome OS that you can toggle
back and forth between install all your favorite Linux apps including steam and
some games that will run on your hardware that is going to be kind of hit
and miss because of the limited hardware on Chromebooks but it does work
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