Blogpost from Chromebook

12/07/14

The small screen will take some getting used to, but for what I plan using this for, it will do quite nicely.

Necessary Niceties

So, in my incredibly, super humble opinion—Like, I am the most humble person in all of existence, Stephan. The humblest.

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What was I even talking about again?

Oh, yeah, chromebook stuff.

So, chromebook as it arrives is unusuable. You know what I do when I start up a computer? Crtl-Alt-T. Now, if I'm on Windows, that does nothing and I go, "Oh, yeah, I wanted to play games." Otherwise, I see a terminal come up and I do whatever it is I wanted to do.

Ctrl-Alt-T has a terminal come up, but I could not do what I wanted to do. Seriously, there were like, five commands, none of which were things I wanted to do. It was some pretend shell called crosh. Didn't even have ssh on it.

Unacceptable.

So, I did some searching, and it seemed like there should be a bin shell I can access via:

shell

Now, I tried that, and I got an error saying it didn't exist.

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Unacceptable.

Further searching revealed the need to put my chromebook into a mode called "Developer Mode".

I used this page to put it into such a mode.

Now I have bash and a whole slew of commands I expect to have back at my portable fingertips.

Yes.

Anyways, there's a lot further to go on this:

(Note: I just found those through quick google searches on the chromebook, I am not sure how good the advice or methods are. Still exploring.)

For now, I'm pretty satisfied writing this blog post.