![]() While Google's purchase of Quick-Office and subsequent absorption of its native MS editing capabilities into the Drive suite of apps is a good start, its quite lacking for complex and necessary features such as 'track changes.' The WPS suite fills this gap. Chrome OS' biggest lacking feature is a robust native editor for MS Office files. The first set of apps I recommend installing is WPS's office suite. So now that we have Linux installed, our next step is to get the right apps to make it worth our while. This "Linux in a Window" makes for a nice dual-monitor setup. Ubuntu Linux running in a window inside Chrome OS If everything goes well, you get something that looks like this: The extension target allows for cool things like universal copy-paste, etc. It also sets it up to run Ubuntu in a window in the Chrome OS interface, much like using a remote-desktop application. This will install a chroot running Ubuntu Linux with the XFCE interface (which is very lightweight on system resources, although not as pretty looking as Unity). Sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t xiwi,extension,xfce -r trusty To learn how to install crouton, take a look at this excellent guide: įor more information on crouton and all of its features take a look at David Schneider's (crouton's developer) GitHub page: įor Chromeboxes, I would suggest installing the crouton script with the following targets: This lets us run a full-fledged Linux distro like Ubuntu right on top of Chrome OS. ![]() In short, a chroot is a segregated environment wherein one can run a guest OS inside the main OS. From here, one can install crouton, which is a shell script that places a Linux chroot at your disposal. If you're willing to tinker, you can switch any Chromebox or Chromebook into developer-mode and enable "deeper" access to the Linux underpinnings of the OS. As I discussed previously, Chrome OS has a lot of potential beyond its web-centric interface. ![]()
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