[a1r]

Why use Gallium over crouton?

I've used crouton/XUbuntu as my main laptop OS for a couple of years. I've pushed it pretty far, running Steam with a removable SD card to play things like DotA 2 - http://www.aaronbell.com/how-to-run-dota-on-a-chromebook/

Chromebooks are amazingly capable once you add a little storage and update the video drivers.

[riprowan]

This is maybe an OT reply, but crouton / dualboot still brings up the scare-screen on boot. Which is fine if you're a dev.

Not so good when you hand the computer to your brother-in-law to check out a web page, he opens it up

OS VERIFICATION OFF PRESS SPACE TO RE-ENABLE

and of course presses space and wipes your whole environment :(

Yes this was me :(

[witty_username]

So, enabling OS verification wipes the data on the Chromebook or what?

[msh]

Yes, it detects that the OS have been tampered with when you have dual boot or use crouton and nukes the disc with a clean install.

[milankragujevic]

Yes, every time you enable or disable OS verification the whole eMMC flash memory is deleted.

[sfifs]

For me, the main reason I keep checking out options to run a regular linux distro vs. chromeOS/crouton is to be able to run kernel modules like KVM. Android Studio requires KVM to be able to run the emulator at anything greater than glacial speed.

I actually once built a custom chromiumOS build with kvm enabled and was able run both Android emulator as well as Windows 7 for Office :-) But it proved to be too much of a hassle to rebuild updates over time.