Therefore you could treat it just like any other fullscreen app. Once installed, it will allow you to open up Ubuntu in its own window within Chrome OS. In the Chrome Web store, there’s an extension called crouton integration. Again, you are free to choose whatever environment that you desire. Xfce is the desktop environment that I am choosing to use. Of course, you can replace this with any version version of Ubuntu that you desire. Trusty is the version of Ubuntu I am going to download. Sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t xfce Inside of terminal type in the following: Then open up terminal by typing in CRTL + ALT + T. On your Chromebook, download the crouton file. ![]() This will not erase any data, and will allow you to switch back and forth between Chrome OS and Ubuntu. We are going to be using the popular script called crouton to install Ubuntu on your Chromebook. Check my tutorial if you have not done this yet. To do this, you will need to make sure that you have developer mode enabled on your Chromebook. All you have to do is download the script and run it with your configurations. All of the hard work has been done by a script that automates the process. This might sound very hard and technical, but it’s not. Luckily, there is an easy answer to all of this. I might even get in the mood to play Minecraft during a long car ride. ![]() ![]() It’s not that I don’t like Chrome OS, but sometimes I need to launch a C compiler or run java apps when I am away from home. I am always looking for different ways that I can extend the capability of my Chromebook.
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