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You have to enable developer mode to run crouton; you don't have to do that to run Linux apps.

Unfortunately I couldn't get crouton to work on a chromebook I bought recently; after switching into a chroot the screen would freeze. I think the issue might be that my chromebook has an AMD APU and an older kernel.

At the expense of security. You're also at risk of wiping your hard drive by accident whenever you hit the wrong during bootup.

Recommending Developer Mode is never a good idea.

Sure, but now it's literally just a button click and it's in the same environment as ChromeOS, no need to reboot to switch between.

Also native file sharing between the linux containers and ChromeOS.