[jphalimi]

"Google’s PM director for Chrome OS Kan Liu told me the company was obviously aware that people were using Crouton to do this before. But doing this also meant doing away with all of the security features that come with Google’s operating system."

I don't know if I am the only one, but this one made me laugh.

[iodiniemetra]

Yes, disabling signed boot and allowing untrusted, unsandboxed code is what sets chromebooks apart from the competition.

Of course, you can do away with these checks by entering developer mode.

[jacksmith21006]

Plus the automatic updating and even done in the background. Just pick it up next reboot.

True story. Son was turning his Win PC off for the night and it indicated do not shut off as updating. Told him just leave it on for the night. Wake up in the morning and still do not turn off updating. Just a terrible UX.

I am a huge fan of CBs. Now GNU/Linux support makes it that much better.