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Data science on a chromebook
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Re: Data science on a chromebook
#12I haven't tried it, but as developers, isn't using a small screen all day everyday becomes stressful after some time?
Re: Data science on a chromebook
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I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension. I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles dr…
The battery life on my Chromebook jumped from 10 hours to 15 hours when I replaced ChromeOS with Linux. Trading all of that Javascript for C makes a huge difference on battery life.
May be the case, but 10 hours is plenty for me so not a real issue. The other advantages making up the full package are a big win for me. I still have an use full linux laptops and they are fine but they take a little more effort to set up and such.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
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A seatmate on a recent long flight had an Asus Chromebook with Linux side-loaded via Crouton, and was doing exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks (mostly using R). Response seemed reasonably snappy. The trade-off for him was long- battery life and a laptop he wouldn't cry over if it didn't survive the trip, vs. being restricted to doing analysis on (relatively, for him) small data samples.
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension. I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles dr…
Which model do you have?
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
A seatmate on a recent long flight had an Asus Chromebook with Linux side-loaded via Crouton, and was doing exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks (mostly using R). Response seemed reasonably snappy. The trade-off for him was long- battery life and a laptop he wouldn't cry over if it didn't survive the trip, vs. being restricted to doing analysis on (relatively, for him) small data samples.
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension. I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles dr…
Linux isn't that difficult to use any more. I didn't need to do any special configuration with my current laptop. Battery life is about 11-13 hours. ThinkPad t460. 24 Gb of RAM. USD $1,900 including tax, shipping, and a 4-year, next-day, at-home repair plan where they will drive to my home to fix it on the next business day, even if I spill coffee on it.
I don't understand why people encourage the use of restricted technology. If consumers say that restricted technology is okay (by buying it and recommending it), eventually we won't have a choice any more.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#16I wrote the first versions of CoCalc on a chromebook, for use in data science education (mostly my own classes initially)...
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension. I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles dr…
Linux isn't that difficult to use any more. I didn't need to do any special configuration with my current laptop. Battery life is about 11-13 hours. ThinkPad t460. 24 Gb of RAM. USD $1,900 including tax, shipping, and a 4-year, next-day, at-home repair plan where they will drive to my home to fix it on the next business day, even if I spill coffee on it. I don't understand why people encourage the use of restricted t…
Did you manage to buy this machine without paying the Microsoft levy?
One of the few things I like with Chromebooks is that you don't pay a license for software that's bundled with it.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux isn't that difficult to use any more. I didn't need to do any special configuration with my current laptop. Battery life is about 11-13 hours. ThinkPad t460. 24 Gb of RAM. USD $1,900 including tax, shipping, and a 4-year, next-day, at-home repair plan where they will drive to my home to fix it on the next business day, even if I spill coffee on it. I don't understand why people encourage the use of restricted t…
Did you manage to buy this machine without paying the Microsoft levy? One of the few things I like with Chromebooks is that you don't pay a license for software that's bundled with it.
I don't know how the price is calculated behind the scenes. I paid a total of $1,900 and am happy with what I got for that price. I completely deleted Windows 10 when it arrived and installed GNU/Linux.
You do pay for Chromebook software with your data.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#19I haven't tried it, but as developers, isn't using a small screen all day everyday becomes stressful after some time?
It very much depends on your workflow and the tools you need. If you rely on a full-fat IDE, it'll probably be a disaster; if you're mainly a command-line user, you might be pleasantly surprised. A small screen can be quite relaxing, because it constrains the amount of visual clutter. If you've got a giant 4k display, there's a temptation to fill all those pixels with distracting and non-essential information. A little 11" screen forces you to focus on what's essential.
I wouldn't want to read a book-sized newspaper, but I also wouldn't want to read a broadsheet-sized novel.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#20Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
Because it's useful to be able to access the same state from everywhere, and to not have to worry if the computer in front of you gets destroyed or stolen. Plus Chromebooks are more resistant to viruses and tampering.
Thinking about a Chromebook as a restricted computer is kind of like thinking of a USB keyboard as a restricted computer. Yeah, you can't really use it as a general-purpose computer. But that's not the point. It's an ultra-reliable toaster that you use to access some other general-purpose computer in the cloud.