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Google should invest in ChromeOS as a serious PC/Laptop OS. It is ridiculous that Google made the choice to make ChromeOS the "cheap" OS.
Chromebooks aren’t Linux in the sense people who want a Linux computer care about
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How often does one reboot their laptop around nearby strangers? I gotta be honest that some of these criticisms seem a little strained. I mean, it's true, they beep at boot when dev mode is enabled!
I shut all of my computers all the way off when I’m finished using them, which means I have to turn them on when I start using them.
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I shut all of my computers all the way off when I’m finished using them, which means I have to turn them on when I start using them.
Is this an adaptation to some past trauma? I can't imagine a good reason to do this today, certainly not with ChromeOS.
If I close the lid, when I get back _I_ need a clean slate. I'll never remember what I was doing anyway.
Modern machines boot and launch apps so fast I'm not really saving any time sleeping an empty desktop either.
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> - "Switch to dev mode". But I don't want to be prompted to factory reset each boot. Developer mode simply puts up a splash at boot warning you that the OS is custom, you just press enter to boot. The requirement to do a drive wipe is a one-time thing when you enable it the first time (for obvious reasons, to prevent exfiltration of data stored by a secured OS).
Thanks - has this changed in the past few years? A few years back (when I last looked in depth), it was very easy at every boot (not only first boot) to accidentally wipe everything - e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/Crouton/comments/3be2su/reducing_ri... I also remember that it made a loud beep on every boot!
Google put in a ton of work to make all the Linux and Android sandboxing while still being able to do file sharing into the sandboxes, Wayland GUI app bridging, usb pass-through, and a bunch of other stuff. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con... ChromeOS got good and is wildly underrated for software development. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Couldn't agree more. I recently bought a cheap $200 Chromebook and I have to say that it outperforms my high end Windows + WSL2 machine from work for programming related tasks. Linux just works without all the WSL issues, I can run Visual Studio Code, Docker and anything that I tried so far. It's actually a delight to work on. I can only imagine how much better yet it will be with a top tier Chromebook
I have been interested in buying a Chromebook for dev purposes.
Google put in a ton of work to make all the Linux and Android sandboxing while still being able to do file sharing into the sandboxes, Wayland GUI app bridging, usb pass-through, and a bunch of other stuff. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con... ChromeOS got good and is wildly underrated for software development. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paying top dollars/euros for a laptop with 8GB/128GB isn't my idea of an ideal developer laptop.
Except that most people view Linux as open source etc. Chromebooks aren’t Linux in the sense people who want a Linux computer care about