I stopped reading when I saw "what is a desktop environment?" ...
A miserable little pile of applications. But enough talk, have at you!
It all started with the BigBang... more words, better seo.
ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
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#182I just recently switched from Ubunto to ChromeOS Flex and my quality of life has gone way up. I had so many frustrations with Ubuntu when switching displays, unlocking, sharing screens... all gone with ChromeOS flex and I get to keep my linuxdev tools. So happy!!
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#183Yeah, it is funny how successful Linux became as a desktop while basically noone was paying attention. I just wish the keyboards were more developer friendly. Give me F keys!
I've been saying it for years and people just told me to shut up and told more sarcastic YOTLD jokes.
The linux desktop crushing Windows is inevitable. It's just not going to play out how people thought it would.
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#184Google 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)_/¯
So many people over the years tried to turn their ipad into a remote development machine and failed spectacularly, because of the aggressive app suspend (your ssh/web sessions get disconnceted) and the weird keyboard support in iOS (keyboard shortcuts for text navigation are not the same as PC). In the mean time, ChromeOS is the perfect OS for that. I have my own bare metal server with code-server installed. My chromeos 2-in-1 detachable is absolutely perfect for that usecase, and I can connect my split mech keyboard.
Best of all ? I bought that ChromeOS tablet for $180 USD on amazon. It works BETTER for remote development than a $1000 USD ipad.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Do you have VSCode and Docker installed on the Chromebook? I have been interested in buying a Chromebook for dev purposes.
Don't. Install code-server on a remote server. Your chromeOS device is a just a front-end, you don't need to actually run anything on it besides a chrome browser pointed at your code-server instance and an ssh connection.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 find this very hard to believe. There is no "$200 Chromebook" that will ever out-perform a "high-end" machine no matter if it's running Windows + WSL2 or not. So what are the specs of this "high-end" machine?
a $200 chromebook blows away a $1000 ipad for develompent. It's got nothing to do with raw horsepower but rather software support. for example chromeOS has developer tools. the ipad doesn't.
Re: ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
#187Yeah, it is funny how successful Linux became as a desktop while basically noone was paying attention. I just wish the keyboards were more developer friendly. Give me F keys!
I haven't used F keys in years.
The only reason I don't use them heavily is because there's no way to know if they're F keys or media keys at any given moment in any random keyboard.
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It's still going and Google still refuses to explain why it exists. It was rumored that some of the team was laid off during recent cost cutting.
It’s not rumored. It was widely reported on and many people discussed their impact publicly. Fuchsia is shipping on real devices today (their home hubs) although yea it’s not clear why, they now have quite a few operating systems they manage. 1. Android of course. Chrome casts and phones and tablets use this. 2. Fuchsia for the home hubs. 3. ChromeOS for the chromebooks and stuff. 4. GCP probably has a cloud Linux li…
castOS was a stripped-down Android.
Re: ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
#189Google 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.
There is a new version you can get directly from Google that works on quite a few devices, especially high end ones.
Re: ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
#190Yeah, it is funny how successful Linux became as a desktop while basically noone was paying attention. I just wish the keyboards were more developer friendly. Give me F keys!
Buy laptop without ChromeOS. Install ChromeOS Flex. Be happy. I did this with a Lenovo X1 Nano, my favorite chromebook ever.
Isn’t Chrome OS Flex discontinued ?