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The pixel seems like a total waste from a hardware standpoint, everything he mentioned would work just as well one of those $250 samsung chromebooks. He also had to fight with the os to get anything useful done. Again i can see myself spending a few hundred bucks for a laptop to carry with me and not worry about to get some basic tasks done, but why would anyone want a pixel?
The pixel seems like a total waste from a hardware standpoint, everything he mentioned would work just as well one of those $250 samsung chromebooks. He also had to fight with the os to get anything useful done. Again i can see myself spending a few hundred bucks for a laptop to carry with me and not worry about to get some basic tasks done, but why would anyone want a pixel?
The Pixel's screen is a reason why some people want it.
OT, although it was mentioned in the article: I've found that the ctrl+[ shortcut is much more effective than ESC for switching out of insert mode in vim. Is this shortcut not commonly known?
I'm always surprised when others don't know about it. To me, using escape defeats the purpose of Vim. It's almost like having to reach for your mouse.
! Swap Caps Lock with Esc
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
add Lock = Caps_LockI was given a second hand CR-48 when my 'regular' laptop died 4 months ago. I repartitioned it and installed Ubuntu, and have been using it as my primary personal computer since then. Every time it boots up, it does have an annoying and scary unhappy chromebook, "press space to make chromeos normal" screen, but since I rarely need to boot it from scratch, it's not a big deal. I have an external 64GB USB stick which I…
So you're saying that the 2.5 year old CR-48's test hardware (2 GB Ram, 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 16 GB SSD) is why you're not buying a Pixel?
For general web use (browser, email, terminal) a 'regular' chromebook is quite usable - even a 2 year old one.