Chrome OS Guide to go from Zero to DevOps Hero in a nutshell

João Esperancinha
The Startup
Published in
10 min readMar 11, 2020

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Introduction

Google has provided a list of devices that before 2019, could still have Crostini installed. After 2019 all devices are expected to offer Crostini support. Crostini isn’t an operating system. Rather, it is a Linux application support to work with Chrome OS. It integrates well and it’s easy to use. We can install an Arch Linux distribution in it for example. This year I bought my first Chrome Book. This was model C302C. It is pretty affordable. Unfortunately for whatever reason, it doesn’t seem to provide any support for Crostini anyways! This is the reason why I wrote this article and also why I think it’s still very relevant. We are going to see how to install another alternative environment with Linux in it. My Google Chrome OS is version 83.04091.0.

Going through the intricacies of the Google Chrome OS operating system I realized that this is an operating system brilliantly made for an average user. We can download and use our favorite google store apps, play our music on Spotify, watch videos on YouTube, make our TikTok videos, with the extra advantage of being able to work with it as if it was a common computer. With this system, we can still make our PowerPoints, send our emails, use Microsoft Office, make Word documents, Excels, use Note, and browse endlessly through the Web. Further we…

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João Esperancinha
The Startup

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