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As someone who's never owned one, I think there is something called 'crouton' which makes a chromebook into sort of like a low-end ubuntu laptop. Given that I'v

by divbit 10y ago

As someone who's never owned one, I think there is something called 'crouton' which makes a chromebook into sort of like a low-end ubuntu laptop. Given that I've run VS code on Ubuntu with 2gb ram, it seems like it should be doable.

headmelted 10y ago
This actually uses Crouton to create the Ubuntu environment that Code is installed into. ;-) More details here: https://code.headmelted.com https://code.headmelted.com
- divbit 10y ago
  ah yeah, I totally missed the 'without dev mode' part of his comment, so sorry for the snark
- divbit 10y ago
  Btw - I totally just realized I have to teach my cousin (who only has a chromebook) python this week. So thanks for this! I might try it out.
  - detaro 10y ago
    You should also know about https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, which you can use completely remote.
    - divbit 10y ago
      Perfect, although I guess it was more of 'an easy language to get him started' than specifically python.
0xFFC 10y ago
People keep saying this without realizing what is going on truely, there is two option: 1. Install crouton and use shell to Chroot to your distro (which makes most sense, became what is the reason to buy Chromebook in first place, since maybe you can buy laptop with better Linux support about same price, in this option you have your dev tools in your distro and simultaneously you enjoying your command line dev tools) But remember you are inside chrome OS so you dont have any way to access graphic stack and run Linux GUI app, I think with recent port of Android stack to chrome OS , makes Chromebook more valuable except if you want to run something like Java Swing oe eclipse( eclipse working on web UI , named Che) 2.Use croutin to install complete stack to run Linux GUI apps too.( Honestly I don't understand rational behind this, since you don't have for example Win key in Chromebook and many other issues.)
intoverflow2 10y ago
Judging from comments in this thread 'crouton' still has a several second splash screen on boot telling you to press space that when pressed wipes your entire drive. Hacks like this which devs seem to be happy to endure are not a solution for helping these kids to code.
Touche 10y ago
The point of a Chromebook is ChromeOS. If you're using Ubuntu you might as well be using a low-end PC. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not a Chromebook any more. Chromebooks are not about the hardware.

by divbit 10y ago

headmelted 10y ago

This actually uses Crouton to create the Ubuntu environment that Code is installed into. ;-) More details here: https://code.headmelted.com https://code.headmelted.com

divbit 10y ago
ah yeah, I totally missed the 'without dev mode' part of his comment, so sorry for the snark
divbit 10y ago
Btw - I totally just realized I have to teach my cousin (who only has a chromebook) python this week. So thanks for this! I might try it out.
- detaro 10y ago
  You should also know about https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, which you can use completely remote.
  - divbit 10y ago
    Perfect, although I guess it was more of 'an easy language to get him started' than specifically python.

0xFFC 10y ago

People keep saying this without realizing what is going on truely, there is two option: 1. Install crouton and use shell to Chroot to your distro (which makes most sense, became what is the reason to buy Chromebook in first place, since maybe you can buy laptop with better Linux support about same price, in this option you have your dev tools in your distro and simultaneously you enjoying your command line dev tools) But remember you are inside chrome OS so you dont have any way to access graphic stack and run Linux GUI app, I think with recent port of Android stack to chrome OS , makes Chromebook more valuable except if you want to run something like Java Swing oe eclipse( eclipse working on web UI , named Che) 2.Use croutin to install complete stack to run Linux GUI apps too.( Honestly I don't understand rational behind this, since you don't have for example Win key in Chromebook and many other issues.)

intoverflow2 10y ago

Judging from comments in this thread 'crouton' still has a several second splash screen on boot telling you to press space that when pressed wipes your entire drive. Hacks like this which devs seem to be happy to endure are not a solution for helping these kids to code.

Touche 10y ago

The point of a Chromebook is ChromeOS. If you're using Ubuntu you might as well be using a low-end PC. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not a Chromebook any more. Chromebooks are not about the hardware.