Hi

I've seen many videos on installing linux on chromebooks via crouton. But, they don't mention or show it being done on chromebooks 2.

I don't have a chromebook 2 yet, but I will get one if crouton is possible on a chromebook 2.

Thanks

Which Chromebook 2? I found at least 2 very different models by that name:
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Chrome.../dp/B00Y4WKKXW
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Chrome.../dp/B00J49ZH6K

I guess either one whichever it is possible. So far, installing crouton works on the regular chromebooks as I seen in the videos on youtube. I want to be careful and not brick the chromebook 2 if installing linux crouton didn't work.

My sole purpose to getting the chromebook 2 is to install and use linux only. I don't like the default chrome OS as it is very limited. I want to have linux programs and gnu tools and a better shell than what the chromebooks offer.

The second reason is price of under $300 including shipping.

Crouton runs on any chromebook. It's not limited to any particular model. What can be problematic is changing the BIOS to run Linux natively on the chromebook. But if you just want to run a chroot via crouton, you can do that on any chromebook. You might want to check the crouton community on Google+. You'll get device-specific help there, much more than you'll get here. Google+ is the place to go for chromebook help.

Running linux in a chroot environment is fine by me. Thanks sgosnell

It's funny, how google makes it difficult to install linux natively than a windows's laptop.

Google's intent is to make a secure device that can't be hosed by malware. And they've succeeded, so far. Google offers a $100,000 bounty to anyone who can hack a chromebook, and haven't paid out anything yet. But unlike Apple, they understand that some people want more than a walled garden, so they've made it possible to bypass that security if you really want to. They don't make it easy, but they do make it possible. You have to go through some effort, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you don't have the expertise to put the chromebook in developer mode and do the other things that are necessary, you probably shouldn't be doing it anyway. But there are lots of people with no common sense and no experience out there trying to flash a custom BIOS and do all sorts of other things, without understanding any of what they're doing, or need to do. Google's position is that it's your device, do what you want with it, but don't come crying to us when you brick it. And I think that's a reasonable position.