At work we are getting new Chromebooks, easy to use workstations, sort of portable terminals. I sometimes end up with one of the older spare computers and at the moment the situation is not to my liking. My thoughts went straight to a possible Puppy linux solution as my personal desktop environment, portable between any computer-like device.
I have this week at home (due to corona enforced home office) to prepare my self for the new hardware. These are new Acer Chromebooks, I have only see the cardboard boxes as they were carried in last week and I assume they will be in circulation pretty soon. I think they will have 4GB RAM, but I can't say anything for sure, and I hope to boot from a USB storage unit. I have found a bit of info on youtube and various posts on the web but most is aimed at full harddrive installs. So far I haven't arrived at an approach to handle this.
A slight worry is the terminal window and sudo commands, I have done this in the past, mostly by typing in the commands from others guidelines. I see some boot into developer mode and access the terminal window form there. I assume there will be several ways about this once the clever guys are onto the challenge.
Any suggestion for someone who is completely new to chromebooks? My first aim is to find a boot option from USB and the work arounds for possibly no BIOS or boot option.