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I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft... . Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default, and it seems like nobody cares :/
After my macbook pro keyboard became completely unusable and keys literally started to fall off I went out and bought a Pixelbook and handed my Macbook in for repair. I'll tell you right now, I'll never go back and I immediately understood that Apple are truly screwed. The macbook is dead and they don't even know it. All developers will eventually move to a Chromebook, Surface or whatever else. Chrome OS for me is pe…
I've tried but failed. There are a couple of key issues: 1) The first is that the chromebook that I purchased before the Crostini announcement (Asus C302CA), which was very much a flagship laptop remains unsupported. The wonderful software update hell of the google ecosystem bit me here. 2) I do a lot of work on airplanes, so not everything can run on a cloud instance. Apple cost too much (and has a remarkable lack o…
I've tried but failed. There are a couple of key issues: 1) The first is that the chromebook that I purchased before the Crostini announcement (Asus C302CA), which was very much a flagship laptop remains unsupported. The wonderful software update hell of the google ecosystem bit me here. 2) I do a lot of work on airplanes, so not everything can run on a cloud instance. Apple cost too much (and has a remarkable lack o…
I don't understand the appeal of cloud only/mostly computing for non-trivial use cases. It's probably that I care a lot more about Internet hiccups getting in my way than most. To me it'd be like having a smartphone that only unlocks when there's a signal.
I got my wife a Samsung Chromebook 3 and she uses it for her job as preschool director. Being able to install Android apps is great. I feel like I could use that machine for most of my personal projects. I would NOT use a remote development tool; try to do it all locally when you can.
Main reason is good driver support out of the box. Also not perfect(trouble with sd-cards, that can cause freezes), but my ASUS C213 runs very smoothly and long compared to my other laptops and it is sturdy and not expensive. Perfect for working while traveling ...
But ChromeOS itself ... is quite horrible. You feel cripled anytime you want to do more than Surfing and basic writing.
With the developer switch and some pain, I could set up my work enviroment with node and chrome dev tools and now that works pretty good, but every time I am forced to use that joke of a file browser I get annoyed.
But once linux apps will be fully supported (stable and gpu accelerated), things might get interesting. But I still hate beeing limited and restricted in many ways. I like to fully tweak my system to my taste. It is Linux underneath but different. And not very well documented.
You want to change key-binding or just want to invoke a shutdown after a long script finished? Or ... dare to create new logins(without google-connection)?
Good luck, I gave up on that.
I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft... . Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default, and it seems like nobody cares :/
I would like to be able to run Emacs on it. It doesn't have to be full blown dev machine, but I'd like some of my simple tooling, and backup to cloud storage to share with my main work machines.
I currently using an iPad with a Brydge keyboard attached (I paid $350 for the setup, ipad on sale for $250 + $99 keyboard), which I love, but I don't have native Emacs and some other stuff, so I'm actually looking at a Chromebook. I think I could do most stuff with native Android apps and the web browser. I'd still like to figure out the Emacs/lightweight development type of thing. I've tried some of the online tooling like repl.it, but have a hard time with the portable keyboard bindings...
I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft... . Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default, and it seems like nobody cares :/
I need MS to install IE, so I can use it to go and get IceWeasel, or whatever. Leave them alone!
Originally I expected to write code directly on the Chromebook using Crostini (edit: Crouton), but it required a lot of hand-holding. I eventually gave up. But that was years ago, so maybe they've smoothed out the edges.