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I have an Acer C720, with a 64 gb SSD, in which I would like to install Ubuntu. But I don't want the "crouton" version. If I follow the directions from here (https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/764181-how-to-install-linux-on-an-acer-c720-chromebook) will I get a "real" version of Ubuntu? If not how should I proceed?

Thanks

Elisa
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The real version of Ubuntu on Chromebook is called Chrubuntu.

I have done this, and even got it working great, but after a few months it wouldn't boot. There's no way I can tell you how to do it in one post. Go for it, but remember it's imperfect. Here's the most important resource:

reddit.com/r/chrubuntu

However, I'm going to say that you shouldn't do this. It's a hassle (think 8 hours of setup time), when another distro now supports Chromebooks out of the box. You can use pendrive linux's universal installer to install the Chromebook flavor of Bodhi linux, and you'll find yourself probably much more at ease

Make sure you get the chromebook flavor: http://bodhilinux.com Of course you still have to configure the Chromebook itself to allow it: http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2014/01/howto-bodhi-linux-on-acer-c720.html

Jonathan
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You need to enable developer mode and then enable legacy boot. Then, enable boot from USB. Then, do a standard Ubuntu 15.04 install with a flash drive. This process will delete ChromeOS.

Merlin04
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As far as I can establish by quickly examining the script, yes. The script downloads a base Ubuntu version from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/$ubuntu_version/release/ubuntu-core-$ubuntu_version-core-$ubuntu_arch.tar.gz

where $ubuntu_arch and $ubuntu_version are the Ubuntu arch and version specified/needed.

However, it then modifies bits, presumably to make it work on Chromebooks. This seems to include settings for the touchpad, setting up software repos (mainly those used in standard Ubuntu), and making a patched kernel (using this amongst other things), as well as flashing new firmware.

So parts like the kernel and hardware/driver configuration may not be the same as in the 'standard' Ubuntu versions, but are necessary to make it work on Chrombooks. The software (desktop, applications & programs etc) used should for the most part be exactly the same as available in standard Ubuntu installs as I think is uses the normal repositories.

Wilf
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