Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students
jrgd@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
How locked down are the Chromebooks?
Remote VM seems overkill if you can just enable “Linux for Chromebook”, which gives a sandboxed terminal at which point you can setup and install software like Blender, PrusaSlicer, etc.
It won’t be the fastest because they are thin clients, but even modern thin clients do decently for ‘light’ work.
Vegan_Joe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If only! They cannot be reimaged at all. They cannot even add extensions to Chrome. They are LOCKED down.
lorentz@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Linux from chromebook is just a configuration you enable from the settings menu. If offers you a shell which is similar to a Ubuntu and you can install standard Linux software using the “apt install” command. Said so, if they cannot even install chrome extensions this is likely disabled too.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
By whom?
Please talk to your IT department. If nothing else you could get the green light for something else.
paf@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Does it have access to boot menu? If so, change boot order so it goes to usb first. You will then only need to create a bootable usb stick with Linux on it
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’m sure that won’t cause problems…
Vegan_Joe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They are bios locked (or whatever the Chromebook equivalent of that is).