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You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by grover_hartmann »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #139
grover_hartmann wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The whole thing feels stuck a decade ago. Says the macOS user... did you even get a newer version of bash yet? I heard even Debian stable has a newer bash version than macOS.

`brew install bash` Software is trivial to upgrade and that's a very silly comparison to make.

Yes, FOSS saving a close source platform, what's news?

You are completely missing the point, my point was that Apple is so bad of a company that they completely refuse to ship with GPLv3 software, they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists.

Take take take, but never give anything back. The GNU project did everything right by moving to GPLv3.

And last time I checked, brew doesn't work so well when you have multiples users on the same system.

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by airstrike »

confounded wrote: post #114
mschuster91 wrote: post #74

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> with a proper display resolution 3:2? No thanks I don't really want black bars when watching movies... What I'd really really like is something with the build quality (especially the touchpad!) of a MacBook Pro, with decent and recent hardware, first class Linux support for all features, support for both USB-C and "old" USB and a decent keyboard with it. And that without paying more than for an technologically outd…

You’re pretty much describing Purism’s Librem line of laptops: https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/

Wow. Thanks for sharing. This is amazing... it's like it was made for me but I'm sure my wife won't approve the idea of buying yet another computer. Good daydreaming material, though!

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by konschubert »

owaislone wrote: post #73

Ever since I bought a Samsung Chromebook Plus for a friend and had a week to play with it, I've wanted Google to do this. This is probably my favourite announcement from I/O this year. I love how simple and well designed Chrome OS is. Now I can get proper access to all the tools I'm used to on Linux while not having to deal with terrible UX when it comes to things like notifications, daily schedule, calendar and mail…

I recently discovered "mailspring" as a snap package in the software center.

It's quite a powerful and polished mail app. The disadvantage is that it breaks down on me sometimes and by default it adds tracking features to your email, so you'll have to turn that off.

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by crispinb »

grover_hartmann wrote: post #161
AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`brew install bash` Software is trivial to upgrade and that's a very silly comparison to make.

Yes, FOSS saving a close source platform, what's news? You are completely missing the point, my point was that Apple is so bad of a company that they completely refuse to ship with GPLv3 software, they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists. Take take take, but never give anything back. The GNU project did everything right by moving to GPLv3. And last time I checked, brew doesn't work so well when you have multi…

> they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists.

Yep. The Apple death count must be nearing that of WWII by now surely.

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by WindowsFon4life »

paultopia wrote: post #41

I think this is great. I bought a chromebook flip a couple of years ago, with the intention of putting Linux on it---only to find that the hardware is depressingly bad and the ARM processor makes the Linux experience terrible (had to install Arch, never did manage to make basic things like the JVM work right, eventually gave up on it). Since then, I've been very skeptical of the notion of buying chromebooks as cheap…

The jvm would be bad, but in my case it was very underpowered for Virtualbox. Unsure how it is usable by anyone.

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by toast0 »

lunchables wrote: post #148
toast0 wrote: post #131

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Apt-get got there first. Debian does a pretty good job of trying to make upgrades work (which isn't really an apt thing, plenty of apt based distributions don't actually care to make upgrades work). It's been a while, but my understanding is redhat figured out dependency resolution too, though.

>It's been a while, but my understanding is redhat figured out dependency resolution too, though. About 20 years ago, give or take.

Maybe 15, but I do recall using redhat in 1998 and getting things like you can't install foobar.rpm because it needs /usr/lib/libsomethingcool.so.4 and then plugging in that file name to rpmfind.net to figure out what package I needed (maybe it didn't need to be that hard, but it wasn't obvious that it could be easier)

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by em3rgent0rdr »

paultopia wrote: post #41

I think this is great. I bought a chromebook flip a couple of years ago, with the intention of putting Linux on it---only to find that the hardware is depressingly bad and the ARM processor makes the Linux experience terrible (had to install Arch, never did manage to make basic things like the JVM work right, eventually gave up on it). Since then, I've been very skeptical of the notion of buying chromebooks as cheap…

I've had quite good performance on my C201 economy Arm chromebook running Arch Linux. It is quite snappy. And I can do dev work on it.

Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

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Post by vatueil »

wilsonnb wrote: post #68
fareesh wrote: post #2

Are there any good reasons why a developer would buy a Chromebook over some other laptop, unless they are developing for the Chromebook itself?

The Chromebook Pixel has a 3:2 screen. As far as I know only Huawei and Microsoft sell 3:2 laptops so it doesn't have much competition in that regard.

The Samsung Chromebook Plus/Pro also have 3:2 screens, same size and resolution as the Google Pixelbook (probably the same display panel). Though those are also Chrome OS devices, of course.
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